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nding at Sydney, he applied for and obtained a situation at the theatre. His face secured him all the "sentimental villains;" and his success fully entitles him, at the present moment, to be regarded as the "acknowledged hero" of "domestic (Sydney) melodrama." VICHYANA. No watering-place so popular in France as Vichy; in England few so little known! Our readers will therefore, we doubt not, be glad to learn something of the _sources_ and _re_sources of Vichy; and this we hope to give them, in a general way, in our present Vichyana. What further we may have to say hereafter, will be chiefly interesting to our medical friends, to whom the _waters_ of Vichy are almost as little known as they are to the public at large. The name of the town seems to admit, like its waters, of analysis; and certain grave antiquaries dismember it accordingly into two Druidical words, "Gurch" and "I;" corresponding, they tell us, to our own words, "Power" and "Water;" which, an' it be so, we see not how they can derive _Vichy_ from this source. Others, with more plausibility, hold Vichy to be a corruption of _Vicus_. That these springs were known to the Romans is indisputable; and, as they are marked _Aquae calidae_ in the Theodosian tables, they were, in all probability, frequented; and the word _Vicus_, Gallicised into Vichy, would then be the designation of the hamlet or watering-place raised in their neighbourhood. Two of the principal springs are close upon the river; ascertaining, with tolerable precision, not only the position of this _Vicus_, but also of the ancient bridge, which, in the time of Julius Caesar, connected, as it now does, the town with the road on the opposite bank of the Allier, (Alduer fl.,) leading to Augusta Nemetum, or Clermont. The road on _this_ side of the bridge was then, as now, the high one (_via regia_) to Lugdunum, or Lyons. Vichy, if modern geology be correct, was not always _thus_ a watering-place; but seems, for a long period, to have been a _place under water_. The very stones prate of Neptune's whereabouts in days of langsyne. No one who has seen what heaps of _rounded_ pebbles are gleaned from the corn-fields, or become familiar with the copious remains of _fresh water_ shells and insects, which are kneaded into the calcareous deposits a little below the surface of the soil, can help fetching back in thought an older and drearier dynasty. Vulcan here, as in the Phlegrian and Avernian plai
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