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WIND, POPLARS, AND
PLAINS.
THERE is nothing more pleasing to a tra-
veller, or more terrible to travel-writers,
than a large rich plain, unless it be a straight white
poplar-lined road, good as asphalt. After Amiens,
as after Abbeville and Neuchatel, there was a
poplared avenue over a breezy upland to carry us
to the next town, that town little more but a new
place to start from to the next plain and poplars,
and so on. There were cantonniers still at work,
sweeping the highway with great brooms.-
“ You
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PLAINS.
THERE is nothing more pleasing to a tra-
veller, or more terrible to travel-writers,
than a large rich plain, unless it be a straight white
poplar-lined road, good as asphalt. After Amiens,
as after Abbeville and Neuchatel, there was a
poplared avenue over a breezy upland to carry us
to the next town, that town little more but a new
place to start from to the next plain and poplars,
and so on. There were cantonniers still at work,
sweeping the highway with great brooms.-
“ You
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