Wanderings by the Loire . sages which it wouldbe unfair to dignify with the name of streets. Rarelycan they admit of two vehicles passing; and sometimesthey afford room only for the one-wheeled carriages,which it might seem invidious to name. Towards thecathedral the streets are laid out in broad, low steps,so that you approach the summit of the town by flightsof stairs. These peculiarities make the place tell well in anoutside view, as will be seen by the opposite bridge is handsome, and, above all, substantial;and in the middle there is an obelisk, which gives youto understand
Wanderings by the Loire . sages which it wouldbe unfair to dignify with the name of streets. Rarelycan they admit of two vehicles passing; and sometimesthey afford room only for the one-wheeled carriages,which it might seem invidious to name. Towards thecathedral the streets are laid out in broad, low steps,so that you approach the summit of the town by flightsof stairs. These peculiarities make the place tell well in anoutside view, as will be seen by the opposite bridge is handsome, and, above all, substantial;and in the middle there is an obelisk, which gives youto understand by an inscription, that it enjoys the dis-tinction of having been the first public work commencedin the reign of Louis XV. The chateau, however, isthe grand object of attraction, without which the townof Blois would be among the most uninteresting wehave ever seen. This magnificent ruin — for it is littleelse than a ruin — exhibits a mixture of an earlier stylewith those of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The 4.
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