ARNHEIM.

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Our route now laid near to the pyramidwhich Buonaparte erected to commemo-rate his large encampments on the plainshere, when setting out upon his disaster-oils expedition to Moscow. It has, at adistance, the appearance of an huge massrising out of a large barren tract of heath ;on one side of which there commences alow forest of beach, through which wetravelled several leagues, the road still con-tinuing a deep sand with some few eleva-tions. We passed, on the right, a toler-ably good looking uninhabited house,which we were informed belonged to LordRochford, and about eleven o’clock atnight, arrived at Arnheim :—stopping atthe post-house a few yards from thegates, we found wretched accommodations,but were told that there were no better tobe met with within the town. Nothingindeed can be conceived more comfortlessthan the appearance of Arnheim , which isin a state of withering decay, and withoutany sign of life or animation. One wouldthink that the plague had swept away one-half of the inhabitants, while the other

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