. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. nd industry. It is on thewhole a noble city. The quays alongthe Rhone are superb; the hotel deville is held to be second only tothat of Amsterdam; the cathedral ishighly ornamented in the floridGothic style ; and the square., espe-cially the Place de Bellecour, withits fountains and statues, are nowhere surpassed. On the other hand, the old streets arenarrow, bordered by lofty and gloomy walls, and divided by a muddy stream. To turn intothem from the quays hasbeen compa
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. nd industry. It is on thewhole a noble city. The quays alongthe Rhone are superb; the hotel deville is held to be second only tothat of Amsterdam; the cathedral ishighly ornamented in the floridGothic style ; and the square., espe-cially the Place de Bellecour, withits fountains and statues, are nowhere surpassed. On the other hand, the old streets arenarrow, bordered by lofty and gloomy walls, and divided by a muddy stream. To turn intothem from the quays hasbeen compared to entering subterraneous passages, watered by thesluices of Cocytus. Lyons suffered dreadfully under the sway of the jacobins, who made it achief theatre of those atrocities that rendered them the horror of mankind. To say nothingof the massacres perpetrated under the appellation and nnt/ades, they studiouslybroke in pieces all the manufacturing machinery, while with barbarous hands they defacedall the ornaments of the city, filled up the fountains, broke the statues in pieces, and Grande Lyons. 556 DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. Part III, 292 demolished the whole of the cathedral except the walls. Her citizens have made diligentefforts to restore her prosperity, and not without success; still the want of capital and thestag-nation of trade are serious obstructions, and cause the evils of poverty among a largepopulation to be severely felt. The Lyonnese have the propensities usually observed inmanufacturing places: they dislike the Bourbons, and the sight of an Englishman is worm-wood to them. Auvergne, to tlie west of the Lyonnais, is the only mountainous and pastoral tract whichFrance has peculiarly its own. It consists of a continuous range of mountains which liaveevidently been in a state of volcanic action, the country being covered with lava, and thehouses built of it. From an elevated and extensive plain rises the great Puy de Dome,nearly 5000 f
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