ourgs
by the first topographer of the place, BOURGUEVILLE: in his
_Antiquitez de Caen_, pp. 5, 6, 26.

It may be worth subjoining, from the same interesting authority, that
long after the time even of the publication just referred to, the town
of Caen was surrounded by lofty and thick stone walls--upon the tops
of which three men could walk a-breast: and from thence the
inhabitants could discern, across those large and beautiful gardens,
"the vessels sailing in the river Orne, and unloading their cargoes by
the sides of walls." It appears indeed to have been a sort of lounge,
or fashionable promenade--by means of various ladders for the purposes
of ascent and descent.

Among the old prints and bird's-eye views of Caen, which I saw in the
collection of DE BOZE at the Royal Library at Paris, there is one
accompanied by three pages of printed description, which begins with
the lines of Guillaume Breton "Villa potens, opulenta, situ spatiosa
decora." See First Edition, vol. i. p. 274. Evelyn, in 1644, thus
describes the town of Caen. "The whole town is handsomely built of
that excellent stone so well knowne by that name in England. I was
lead to a pretty garden, planted with hedges of Alaternus, having at
the entrance, at an exceeding height, accurately cut in topiary worke,
with well understood architecture, consisting of pillars, niches,
freezes, and other ornaments, with greate curiosity, &c. _Life and
Writings of J. Evelyn_, 1818, 4to. vol. i. p. 52.

[102] See the OPPOSITE PLATE.

[103] It was a similar depot in Ducarel's time.

[104] The story was in fact told us the very first night of our arrival, by
M. Lagouelle, the master of the hotel royale. He went through it with
a method, emphasis, and energy, rendered the more striking from the
obesity of his figure and the vulgarity of his countenance. But he
frankly allowed that "Monsieur l'Anglois se conduisait bien."

[105] [The affair is now scarcely remembered; and the successful champion
died a natural death within about three years afterwards. Mons.
Licquet slenderly doubts portions of this tragical tale: but I have
good reason to believe that it is not an exaggerated one. As to what
occurred _after_ the death of one of the combatants, I am
unwilling to revive unpleasant sensations by its recapitulation.]

[106] Bourgueville seems bit