numbered among these Visitors.]

[23] [The common people to this day call a _herring_, a _child of
Dieppe._ LICQUET.]

[24] ["Sterne reproaches the French for their hyperbolical language: the
air of the country had probably some influence on M. Dibdin when he
adopted this phrase." LICQUET.]

[25] ["Signifying, that the French postilions do not ride like the
English." LICQUET.]

[26] ["Dieppe for a long time was the rival of Argentan and Caen in the
lace-manufactory: at the present day, this branch of commerce is
almost annihilated there."--LICQUET.]

[27] [In a note attached to the previous edition--I have said, "Here also,
as well as at Rouen; they will have it that the ENGLISH built the
Churches." Upon which M. Licquet remarks thus: "M. Dibdin's expression
conveys too general an idea. It is true that _popular_ opinion
attributes the erection of our gothic edifices to the ENGLISH: but
there exists _another_ opinion, which is not deceptive upon this
subject." What is meant to be here conveyed? Either the popular
opinion is true or false; and it is a matter of perfect indifference
to the author whether it be one or the other. For Mons. Licquet's
comfort, I will freely avow that I believe it to be _false_.]

[28] [Louis XVIII.]

LETTER III.

VILLAGE AND CASTLE OF ARQUES. SABBATH AMUSEMENTS. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
BOULEVARDS.

As I had received especial injunctions from our friend P--- not to leave
Dieppe without paying a visit to the famous _Chateau d'Arques_[29], in its
neighbourhood, I resolved to seize the opportunity of a tolerably fair, or
rather gray-looking day, to go and pay due homage to those venerable
remains of antiquity. The road thither is completely rural: apple-trees,
just beginning to burst their blossoms; hamlets, small farm-houses: a
profusion of rich herbage of various kinds--delighted and regaled me as I
pursued my tranquil walk. The country is of a gently-undulating character;
but the flats or meadows, between the parallel ranges of hills, are subject
to constant inundation from the sea; and in an agricultural point of view
are consequently of little use, except for summer grazing of the cattle.

It was drawing on to vespers as I approached the _Village of Arques_. The
old castle had frequently peeped out upon me, in my way thither, from its
elevated situation; but being resolved to see "all that could be seen," a
French vi