D. Boucicault, After Dark. BEL'LISANT, sister of king Pepin of France, and wife of Alexander emperor of Constantinople.

That the channels of the rivers have been gradually sunken, we may distinctly see by the shores of the Upper Mississippi, where are walls of rock, rising perpendicularly, which extend from Lake Pepin to below the mouth of the Wisconsin, as if they were walls built of equal height by the hand of man.

The pleasure seeker will find it convenient to visit any portion of Lake Pepin from any of the villages along its shores.

Whilst he was incessantly fighting in Germany, the work of policy commenced by his father Pepin in Italy called for his care and his exertions.

In point of fact Brittany was no more subjugated by Pepin than by his predecessors; all that can be said is, that the Franks resumed, under him, an aggressive attitude towards the Britons, as if to vindicate a right of sovereignty.