otesque capitals.
In one, two persons are sawing a third, stretched upon a wheel. On the
left of the double-arched porch, is a pulpit outside the church, and there
is some good painted glass within. Notre Dame Blanche, a chapel of the
fourteenth century, is a pretty little building with stone pulpit and a
sculptured group of Notre Dame-de-la-Salette with the two peasant children
of Alsace. Next day, we took a private carriage for La Roche Bernard; the
road lying over a wide extent of land through Herbignac to La Roche
Bernard (Morbihan), which is most picturesquely situated on a rocky height
overhanging the Vilaine, here traversed by an elegant suspension-bridge,
opened in 1839, about 666 feet long and above 108 feet above high-water
mark--a terrible dizzy height to cross even in calm weather. A few years
since, the postman, his cart, and horse were all blown over into the
river, and nothing more was ever heard of them. We went fishing several
days in a large etang close to La Roche Bernard, and one evening took a
pretty walk over the hills to another pond situated in a lovely secluded
valley near a water-mill. La Roche Bernard was an early Protestant colony,
founded by the Sieur d'Andelot, Seigneur of La Roche Bernard, brother to
Admiral Coligny, and one of the firmest supporters of Calvinism. The
Calvinists used to assemble at his chateau of Bretesch, where the minister
of La Roche Bernard came to preach to them. D'Andelot and his sister, who
was equally zealous in the cause, are, it is said, interred at La Roche
Bernard. Near the Halles is a square block of houses; one of timber, with
"Voie au Duc" inscribed upon it. These houses are said to have belonged to
a Protestant community, and all to communicate with each other.

The evening of our arrival there was a wedding supper given at our hotel,
the grand dinner having taken place elsewhere. The bride wore a white
sash, with wreaths of white flowers round her Nantais cap. After supper
the party danced Breton "ronds." The dancers form a large ring (grand
rond), holding each other's hands, which they swing violently as they
sidle round in a kind of hop-skip-and-a-jump step, accompanied by singing
in a most monotonous tone. This went on until midnight. This kind of dance
dates, they say, from Celtic times. The music consists of the biniou or
bagpipe, and the flageolet or hautboy, sometimes with the addition of a
drum. The biniou, cornemuse, or bagpipe, is the national inst