ats, has not yet been published.

[206] I had before said 530 English feet; but a note in M. Crapelet's
version (supplied, as I suspect, by my friend M. Schweighaeuser,) says,
that from recent strict trigonometrical measurement, it is 437 French
feet in height.

[207] The _Robertsau_, about three quarters of a mile from Strasbourg,
is considered to be the best place for a view of the cathedral. The
Robertsau is a well peopled and well built suburb. It consists of
three nearly parallel streets, composed chiefly of houses separated by
gardens--the whole very much after the English fashion. In short,
these are the country houses of the wealthier inhabitants of
Strasbourg; and there are upwards of seventy of them, flanked by
meadows, orchards, or a fruit or kitchen garden. It derives the name
of _Robertsau_ from a gentleman of the name of _Robert,_ of the
ancient family of _Bock_. He first took up his residence there about
the year 1200, and was father of twenty children. Consult _Hermann_;
vol. i. p. 209.

[208] "The engineer Specklin, who, in order to complete his MAP of ALSACE,
traversed the whole chain of the VOSGES, estimates the number of these
castles at little short of _two hundred_: and pushes the antiquity of
some of them as far back as the time of the Romans." See _Hermann_;
vol. i. p. 128, note 20: whose compressed account of a few of these
castellated mansions is well worth perusal, I add this note, from
something like a strong persuasion, that, should it meet the eye of
some enterprising and intelligent English antiquary, it may stimulate
him--within the waning of two moons from reading it, provided those
moons be in the months of Spring--to put his equipage in order for a
leisurely journey along the VOSGES!

[209] This was formerly called the bell of the HOLY GHOST. It was cast in
1427, by John Gremp of Strasbourg. It cost 1300 florins; and weighs
eighty quintals;, or 8320 lb.: nearly four tons. It is twenty-two
French feet in circumference, and requires six men to toll it. In
regard to the height, I must not be supposed to speak from absolute
data. Yet I apprehend that its altitude is not much over-rated.
Grandidier has quite an amusing chapter (p. 241, &c.) upon the
thirteen bells which are contained in the tower of this cathedral.

[210] It was necessary, on the part of my friend,