The Continent in 1835; Sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France Including Historical Notices and Statements Relative to the Existing Aspect of the Protestant Religion in Those Countries (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PAYS DE WAES. 17 -or the Turk under the sanction of the scymitar and the holy crescent;?or Buonaparte himself! We visited the public library, formerly the church of a con- Vent, and well adapted for the reception of ten thousand volumes: it is furnished with a curious machine for using a great rnany books together, and turning them, as convenience may require, with no danger of their falling off. The shades of the Botanic garden near the library, were very grateful after the intense heat of the town. On returning to the inn, we passed near the linen market, or Marchk de Vendredi, the enormous cannon, eighteen feet long and three wide, which Charles V. placed here, to keep the citizens in awe. The town has grown up around the old castle in which this monarch was born: it has been a place of prodigious trade, and still carries on manufactures to. a great extent. LETTER II. Road to Antwerp through the Paysde Waes. Traces of the siege of 1832. Changed feeling towards Catholic clergy, and remark of Bishop Hall. Expense of travelling. Passage across the Scheldt from T?te de Flandre. Antwerp. Hotel d'Antoine. Former vast trade, ana wealths, Cathedral. Quintin Matsys. Church of the Dominicans, and its Calvary, and Purgatory. Church of the Jesuits. Museum. Citadel. Bombardment of the city by the Dutch in 1830- Siege and capture of the citadel by the French in 1832- Impressive effect of contrast. Waelham- Mechlin. Cathedral; its massy pulpit. Vilvorde. William Tyndale- Anticipations from the rail-road system. Brussels. Hotel de BrabanU Passport, Town-house. St. Gudule. Extraordinary pulpit. Jubilee of two hundred and fifty years in honor of the Tres-Saint Sacremcntde Miracle; and the origin, of this festival, ilgnorance. Manner in which devotions are sometimes performed. 'Not...