. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1 Mile. the last has preserved its ancient pillory, now shaded by lofty lime-trees. Hal (8,850 inhabitants), below the confluence of the Senne and Sennette, is a great place of pilgrimage, and its Gothic church is rich in treasures of art. Eui/sbroe/c, a small village half-way between that town and Brussels, was the birthplace of William of Ruysbroek, or Rubruquis, whom Louis IX. dispatched on a mission into Tartary. The basin of the Upper Senne abounds in quarries. A mountain lime- stone, known as " Flanders granite," is obtained near Soignies an
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1 Mile. the last has preserved its ancient pillory, now shaded by lofty lime-trees. Hal (8,850 inhabitants), below the confluence of the Senne and Sennette, is a great place of pilgrimage, and its Gothic church is rich in treasures of art. Eui/sbroe/c, a small village half-way between that town and Brussels, was the birthplace of William of Ruysbroek, or Rubruquis, whom Louis IX. dispatched on a mission into Tartary. The basin of the Upper Senne abounds in quarries. A mountain lime- stone, known as " Flanders granite," is obtained near Soignies and Ecanssines cfEnghicn (5,200 inhabitants), whilst the quarries of Qitenant, to the soulh of Hal,
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