An Itinerary Of France And Belgium Or The Travellers Guide Through Those Countries Being An Account Of The Post And Cross Roads Also A Concise Description Of The Soil Produce

Author : Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230151977
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book An Itinerary of France and Belgium; Or, the Traveller's Guide Through Those Countries written by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...retook it in 1712. It has glasshouses, tanyards, and manufactories of linens, laces, cambrics, camlets, flannel, counterpanes, blankets., tapestry hangings, carpets, snuff, soap, lamp-oil, sugar, and salt. Its manufactures of tin are much admired. Fairs. 1st June and 1st October. Jrms. L'Hotel de Versailles, de Nouveau Monde, and des Quatres Fils Aymon. Population, 13,000. (6) Lille, capital of the Nord, a large, rich, and strong city, situated on the Deule, in a fertile soil. Its citadel, constructed by Vauhan, is one of the finest in the world. It is adorned with a large square, and the streets are well laid out. The principal gate, the theatre, the exchange, and the harracks, are much admired. Near this town are 200 mills of oil of colzat. This town has often been the scene of many bloody wars, and suffered much by bomhardment in I702. It was taken in 1708, by the Allies, after a very long siege; the Austrians vainly attempted to take it in 1 792, after a terrible bomhardment which lasted eight days. The principal objects worthy of attention are, the public library, the theatre, the museum, the pont d'Esplanade, the circns, with a beautiful garden, the promenade d'Esplanade, the botanic garden, the fish and poultry markets, and the haths. Its manufactories consist of cloths, serges, ratteens, stuffs, blankets, calamancoes, and camlets of different qualities, Utrecht velvet, threads, household linen, paper, glasses, china, laces of the same kind as those of Malines and Valenciennes, table-cloths of every kind, refined sugars, soap, and starch. Fair. 29th August. Hotels. De Bourbon, de Gand, de Marienbourg, de Portugal, des Mousqnctaires, de VliIeroy, de la Cloche, and du Cirque. Diligences. For Paris, Arras, Amiens, Flanders, and...