86] Corrected by Mons. Licquet: with thanks from the Author. It was,
before, 1184.

[87] Lieutenant Hall has well described it. I did not see his description
till more than a twelvemonth after my own had been written. A part may
be worth extracting.... "The principal object of attraction is the
CHURCH, the gothic spire of which is encircled by fillets of roses,
beautifully carved in stone, and continued to the very summit of the
steeple. The principal portal too is sculptured with no less richness
and delicacy than that of St. Maclou at Rouen. Its interior length is
about 250 feet by 72 of width. The central aisle [nave] is flanked on
either side by ten massive circular columns, the capitals of which
represent vine leaves and other decorations, more fanciful, and not
less rich, than the Corinthian acanthus.... In one of the chapels
there is a rude monumental effigy of the original architect of this
church. It consists of a small skeleton, drawn in black lines, against
a tablet in the wall: a mason's level and trowel, with the plan of a
building, are beside it, and an inscription in gothic characters,
relating that the architect endowed the church he had built with
certain lands, and died Anno 1484." _Travels in France_, p. 47,
1819, 8vo. I take this to be GUILLAUME TELLIER--mentioned above: but
in regard to the lands with which Tellier endowed the church, the
inscription says nothing. LICQUET.

[88] Small as may be this village, and insignificant as may be its aspect,
it is one of the most important places, with respect to navigation, in
the whole course of the river Seine. Seven years ago there were not
fewer than _four-score_ pilots settled here, by order of government,
for the purpose of guarding against accidents which arise from a want
of knowledge of the navigation of the river. In time of peace this
number would necessarily be increased. In the year 1789 there were
upwards of 250 English vessels which passed it--averaging, in the
whole, 19,000 tons. It is from _Quillebeuf_ to _Havre_ that the
accidents arise. The author of a pompous, but very instructive memoir,
"_sur la Topographie et la Statistique de la Ville de Quillebeuf et de
l'embouchure de la Seine, ayant pour objet-principal la navigation et
la peche_," (published in the Transactions of the Rouen Society for
the year 1812, a