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and for the last third Of the route from Paris to
Chalons, and from Ayignon to Nlarsciles. there is
constant succession Of triumph, ofcngi1ccrinr and
the mn-crly skill of the mechanic 1t there runs
through countries Of the rudcst. -lnrpcstnnd dccpos
hill, valleys, nvincs, and rorges of til, most wild
accidental and picturesque character OF course deep
cuts and bridges and vialucs and tunnels succeed
each other in the most rapid and irregular success
SION We passed through two tunnels OF aboutthrcc
miles each in length. The painful suspense Of ten
minutes IN such deep -olitudcs aud awful cells being
unhrolcu except in one instance. when midway of
the tunnel met another train and the rattling of
the multiudiuous echoes. the blazing of the torches
and the half illuminated wrcaths of smoke as the
trains rushed by each other in the long s,btcrorcan
cavern. gave an air of the most startling suhiniv.
It was from such tunnel, that )ut into the
suburbs of N5rsoHoy. This city dates it, foundation
some coo years before Christ. and has a wa VS. been
commercial city. Tradition says that ono half a
/ dozen years after the death of Christ the risen
Lazarus with his two sisters came to Mrscillcs n
| the pioneers of the new religion The Preaching Of
/ Lazarus soon brought him to n second ieath and
with his martyrdom the progress of the religion Of
Christ was almost entirely arr, stcd and it was not
his soldiers having embraced the new faith also suf
fered mnrtyIdom, and, by their Triumphant, dying
confidence in the savior aroused the srmrnhics OF
the people, that christianity spread among them
Al about the same time, it opened RAPIDLY through
Greece and Rome.
The blood of the original Greek r,cc that settled
the city, it is said, may be still rfoed, that the
population may be said to be of to classes is the
town itself Of two different pets, the old and the
new. The old is dark cvcG and little tawney
brave, industrious and econ'mical, with temper
that carries anger the fin bears fire and stla ght
is cold again, but in its moments of exatation,
is dangerous The ncrcurial, active, volatile,
sympathetic, easily sroued and easily led also in
dustrious aud enterprisDg.
The old town is dark narrow, dirty, and labyrn-
thine. The is mclern, aud spacious and beau
tilul. The compcto, Of the road to Paris, now
near at hand, must ave an impulse to this old com
mcrclal town, which will make it in all its priu
cipol portions, feel I'll the iuygoratng influence Of
modern commerce; and if the Emperor be really
about to build th.rc royal palace has been sug-
gestcd in Official quarters, Marscllc, after the varied
msiortuu. Of uc last fifty years, will enter upon a
career of the r.4t,-t pr. lcrty, AMI will rapidly
become one o. the greatest and most beautiful clti,
of the worl The ola city was built round littlc
bay blight pea. shaped and of bold shore and good
water, cou,t tutng harbor Of the greatest safety.
from which tine city spread around, it grew
through it.. .ous age, of mediterranean commerce.
Thi, Little harbor-ittle. compared with a larger
and outer harbor-is now crowded with vessel.
from all pats OF tie world packed closely to-
gcthcra, iii. possible to place them and in it,