eft for England with the Conqueror,
as soon as the vessel which carried him away disappeared from her sight,
laid down on the shore and died. Every year, on the anniversary of her
death, the fishermen will tell you they see a dove seated upon the
Tombeleine rock, and remain there till morning's dawn.

The guide pointed out to us the window of St. Michel, from which Barbes
tried to escape by means of a cord made of his sheets cut into strips and
tied together; but the line was too short, and he fell upon the rock and
was taken up much hurt. The provisions for the fortress are brought in up
an inclined plane, and raised by means of a tread-wheel, formerly worked
by the prisoners. We were conducted to the spot where stood, with bars
only three inches apart, the iron cage in which so many celebrities were
immured. Dubourg, the Dutch journalist, who wrote against Louis XIV., died
within its bars, devoured, it is said, by the rats. In 1777, the Comte
d'Artois (afterwards Charles X.) desired it should be destroyed, but his
wishes were disregarded. His cousin, the Duc de Chartres (afterwards Louis
Philippe), with his brother and sister, and Madame de Genlis, subsequently
visited the Mount. All exclaimed against the iron cage, and when they
heard that the Comte d'Artois had ordered its destruction, they sent for
hatchets, and the Duc de Chartres gave the first blow towards its
demolition; but the fine old fortress is no longer desecrated as a prison.
The Emperor has restored it to its original position, and it is now placed
under the control of the Bishop of Coutances, and is used as an asylum for
orphans under the care of a few Sisters.

Next morning we crossed the boundary between Normandy and Brittany, the
river Couesnon, which has often changed its course, once, it is said,
running beyond St. Michel--hence the popular saying--

"Le Couesnon par sa folie
A mis le Mont en Normandie."

We had a beautiful drive to Dol or Dol-de-Bretagne, as it is styled, to
distinguish it from the fortress of the same name in the Jura, upon the
taking of which Madame de Sevigne writes in her letters with so much
enthusiasm. We were now fairly in Brittany, which though geographically
part of France still remains very distinct, owing to the Celtic origin of
its inhabitants. Brittany consists of five departments; but it is in Lower
Brittany alone, comprised in the departments of Finistere, Morbihan, and
the Cotes-du-Nord, that the tr