roof, produce a very pleasing effect." p. 28.

[56] Consult the account given by M. Le Prevost in the "_Precis
Analytique des Travaux de l'Academie, &c. de Rouen_," for the year
1816, p. 151, &c.

[57] Farin tells us that you could go from the top of the lantern to the
cross, or to the summit of the belfry, "outside, without a ladder; so
admirable was the workmanship." "Strangers (adds he) took models of it
for the purpose of getting them engraved, and they were sold publicly
at Rome." _Hist. de la Ville de Rouen_, 1738, 4to. vol. ii. p. 154.
There are thirteen chapels within this church; of which however the
building cannot be traced lower than quite the beginning of the XVIth
century. The extreme length and width of the interior is about 155 by
82 feet English. Even in Du Four's time the population of this parish
was very great, and its cemetery (adds he) was the first and most
regular in Rouen. He gives a brief, but glowing description of it--"on
va tout autour par des galeries couvertes et pavees; et, deux de ces
galeries sont decorees de deux autels," &c. p. 150.

Alas! time--or the revolution--has annihilated all this. Let me
however add that M. COTMAN has published a view of the _staircase_ in
the church of which I am speaking.

[58] Ordericus Vitalis says, that the dying monarch requested to be
conveyed thither, to avoid the noise and bustle of a populous town.
Rouen is described to be, in _his_ time, "populosa civitas."
Consult Duchesne's _Historiae Normannor. Scrip. Antiq._ p.656.

[59] A view of it is published by M. Cotman.

[60] _St. Sever_. This church is situated in the southern fauxbourgs,
by the side of the Seine, and was once surrounded by gardens, &c. As
you cross the bridge of boats, and go to the race-ground, you leave it
to the right; but it is not so old as _St. Paul_--where, Farin says,
the worship of ADONIS was once performed!

LETTER VI.

HALLES DE COMMERCE. PLACE DE LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS (JEANNE D'ARC.)
BASSO-RILIEVO OF THE CHAMP DE DRAP D'OR. PALACE AND COURTS OF JUSTICE.

You must make up your mind to see a few more sights in the city of Rouen,
before I conduct you to the environs, or to the summit of _Mont St.
Catherine_. We must visit some relics of antiquity, and take a yet more
familiar survey of the town, ere we strive

... superas evadere ad auras.

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