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W. Kinsey diary, 1817.
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==From Geneva to the valley of Chamouni Chamonix, near the line of the Arve.==
to La Bonneville } In passing to the Valley of Chamouni Chamonix you see a truly interesting country -
to Cluse - } its situation - cascade near Marglans Magland? - those of [Aspunas?], & [Ceddre?]-fall of the Arve near - The entrance into the Valley of Chamouni Chamonix [fine?] - Glacier of Bossons - Glacier of the Valley of Ice - Montenvet Montenvers? - Sea of ice Mer de Glace - route de glace -
to Sallenche Sallanches - } Town of Savoy on the river Arve
to Servez - in the [bas valais ?] } Mt. Blanc Mont Blanc - needles &c &c - From Chamouni Chamonix by le Prieure across the Mts. & by the Col de Balme, to prospect from the Col de Balme
Trient - } Glacier - miserable village surrounded by high mountains - Goitres & Cretins - [leaving?] St. Branchier Sembrancher
to the left? - over the mountains, to
Martigni Martigny - } on the left the beautiful cascade of Pisse Vache Cascade de la Pissevache 200 ft - large & magnificent -
to St. Maurice Saint-Maurice - } Its bridge - }
to Bex - } Its' salt-works
to Aigle - }
to Villeneuve - } at the extremity of the Lake Leman Lac Léman, Lake Geneva -
to Chillon - } Chateau de Chillon - } Clarens
[Written upside-down:] Lausanne
to Vevay Vevey - } In the Canton de Vaud - on the lake de Geneve Lake Geneva - prospect from the upper Ch. yard in the evening - rays of light on Jura Jura Mountains, red & on the Alps yellow - Meilline Meilen? - Jura - &c &c vide la nouvelle Heloise de Rousseau. by - [Calli & lubri?] - or upon [the?] Lake
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[Printed, colored image on paper not bound into codex is inserted into item.
It appears to be loose within the codex. It depicts a crucifix with multiple adornments including crown of thorns, heart, hands and feet, and cherubic faces.
At the base of the crucifix is the text:
S. Vulnera Iesu
Along the bottom of the image is the text:
M. Gleich. A.V.]
Given me by the Capucin [Capuchin?] Monks at Staatz.
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to Lausanne } the walk - Cathedral - prospect - Lake &c - the little chapel at Morat Murten?, wh: [which] contained the bones of the of the Duke of Bur -gundy's defeated army, destroyed by the French in 1798 - Cross hence into the road to Bulle, for
Fribourg - } Church of St. [Saint] Nicholas Gothic its spire - celebrated her- mitage one league from the village - 90 ft long - by 20 ft bdth -
to Berne Bern } public walks - that near the Cathedral - distant chain of Alps - Cathedral - Arsenal - Hotel de Ville - hospital & College are handsome - 1650 ft [feet] above the level of the sea -
to Soleure Solothurn } Front of the Cathedral - on the river Aar Aare - romantic road by [Balital?], Langenbruh Langendorf? or Langenbruch? - Waldenburg - Liental - to
Basle Basel? }
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Tour in Holland.
By Colchester Coach to the 3. [Cops? Cross? Cups? Auss? Crowns?] at Colchester, & by chaise hence to Harwich - 3. Cops -.
Hence by packet to Helvoetsluys Hellevoetsluis - & Brile Brielle - Rotterdam - (Bath Hotel) - Delft - The Hague - ([Marcha Turenne?]) [Schevelyn?] - the house in the wood -
Leyden Leiden - & Haarlem - } (Lion D'or) Chateau D'Anvers Antwerp?
across to
Broam & Laardam Leerdam? - & back by water to Utrecht - [Of Dilgence?] to Sevehum Sevenum? - Breda - Antwerp - Brussels (New theatre building Royal Theatre of La Monnaie?) - to Namur by water to Liege Liège - & by Rheim to Paris.
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Catalogue of Books Dut: Academie 2.v: Danse Des Morts 1.v: Tableau Revol.ns [Revolutions?] 4.v: Continuation - 7 v: Historie de [Malbro?] 3. v: French Synonyms. 2.v } [Illegible?] [2nd?] on Italy 2.v:
1. Map of France - Ebel's Manuel - 4.v: Voltaire's Louis 14th - [45th?] 3.v: La [Haipe's?] Works - 16v: 1. Roll of pictures. }
L'Homme des Champs. 1.v: Itineraire Genevè Geneva. - 1.v: Do [Ditto] - de Susse [Suisse?]. - 1.v: & Almanack - 1 - v: Historie d'[Emielden?] - Do. [Ditto] des Salines 1.v: }
Corneilles = 5.v: Racine - 4.v: Boileau - 1 - v: Genève Geneva in care 1:v. - Berne - Volumes de Toched [de la Roché?] 3. - }
Pamphlets { Les Provencaux - 1.v: Waterloo - 1.v: Les deux Anglais - 1.v: Maison Funebre -1.v: Voltaire's Zaire - 1.v: Journal d'un [baggeur?] 1.v: }
Detatched. Itineraire de Lyon - 1.v. Guide to the [Lovure?] 1.v: Picture of Paris - 1.v: Itinerarie du [Rigri?] 1.v: 1. Map of [Scupe?] 1. [Fr.?] Grammar - Itineraire de France. 1.v: [Ma'ne Genlis?] 1.v: & vocabulary - Voyage on the Rhine - 1.v: Gardens of [Sro'n?] - life of R. Marshals - L Duclos - 3. small volumes - Map of Rouen Rouen- 1-v. }
[Text in pencil:] 25 225
24 9 207 - x
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[Spicer 9-Beof?]
October 1st. Bile at Hotel du Prince Regent - Rue St. Hyacinthe 10 Honore - St. 0 - 10. hence par [Ch:?]: de la Fontaine - 9.F } Sot: 3 F. Porte 1.F: } En Entrant par la rue du Marche des Jacobin Autre le P.R. et la Place Vendome &c }
The carriage of Books from Strasbourg 16.Fr 19.s - Cabriolet 5 F. Dr. to B. Place 14.s Histoire abrig - &c - 42. F. Corneille - 7. - Racine - 7 - Siecle Louis XIX. & XV - 7. Borleau 1 - 5 s.
At Mr Freres- Quay des augustin's 64 F - 5 s - 64 - 5.
fr. m'dme [Le Brements?] at 6-pm for Rouen - 2'd - Rouen 6- a-m - 12 - to Dieppe - D [Ditto?] - 7 - a - m - Hotel de [Londres?] 3'd - Dieppe - 2 - p-m - by the Nautilus Packet for Brighton - 4th - 3 - a-m - Brighton
England!!! Thank God - !
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==27th Brkfst [breakfast] at Lorvaen [[Louvain?]] 3.F. - = Reached [Brussels]] at 10:a:m: London Hotel - Kept by En- -glish people - 11.a:m:. thro' [through] the wood of [Scigncy?] & Wa - terloo [[Waterloo]] to Mt St Jean [[Mont-Saint-Jean]], La Haie Sainte [[La Haye Sainte ]] & Belle Alliance [[La Belle Alliance]] - Monument erecting to [[Sir A: Gordon]] close to Wallington's [[Wallonia?]] tree - torrents of Rain - Car & 18.F. Bile [Billet?] at Hotel 16. Fr. -
28th 4.a:m: by Diligence (65. F.) for [[Paris]] thro' [through] [[Valenciennes]] - N:B. 3.F. 20c. - at [[Halle]] brkfst [breakfast]. 6.a:m: - at Sorgny [[Soignies]] en- -tered the Church, whilst high mass was performing - [[Mons]] a large & handsome town with beautiful Gothic Cathedral - a little way below the barrier between the Kingdom of the [[Netherlands]] and [[France]], at [[Blanc Misseron]], our baggage examined by the Douamen [Douanes?] - 8.p:m: reached the gates of [[Valenciennes]] garrisoned by Scotch Troops - [thru?] camp to the E. [Edge?] of the town - Douamen [Douanes?] [feed?] to leave our baggage unexamined - our Conductor (the 5.[p?]) ought to have had the luggage [plumbed?] at the fin'l [final] place of [mispution?] - slept & [supplied?] here - {XI. F-} - General Burbane is the English Commandant - the Prussains made a breach in the walls of this place in 1814 * + as also at Cambray [[Cambrai]] [[Valenciennes]] seems a very extensive place & is commanded by heights -
29th at 6:a:m. for [[Bouchain]] - at 12. reached Cambray [[Cambrai]] - English Camp to the north of the town - Guards on duty - [ward?] of Coldstream Reg.t [Regiment] playing before the town hall in the beautiful marketplace - two elegant Churches - modern Shops kept by Englishmen - Passports demanded at our entrée - Took them to the Bureau of the Police, & at our sortie from the town, demanded again - our baggage was again examined about 2. hours from [[Cambray]] - Monument to [Marshal Villais?] - & extent of [Maiffsos Villones?] - [Hais?] at [[Peronne]], called La Pucelle - strongly fortified.
Brkfst [Breakfast] at [[Senlis]] - trees cutting {30th} down on each side of the road - 3.F: 1/2 - reached [[Paris]] at 1/2 3.p:m: - [Do.?] at Lambets 6.F.- gloves, the 6.p. & bill with Porters for luggage 7.p. and 5.h. Theatre Francaise, 6.h. 1/2 1- to see Talma [[François-Joseph Talma]] in la fosse [[Antoine de La Fosse]] Tragedy of Manluis [Manlius] - Mdmslle [[Mademoiselle Golnay]] - } Mdmsl. [[Mademoiselle Duchlemon]], aisle box.
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high remain unfinished & the one on the north side is not above 21 ft above the ground, while the other has reached only the half of
chapels have been finished. Groups of columns of immense height seen to shoot up into the sky, like the lofty trees of some ancient Forest, & at their highest point they are surmounted by a crown of branches, which form, with the neighbouring groupes a vaulted roof, ending in a point, as it were, to which it is difficult to strain one's sight. The Columns in the nave of the Church abut upon a [?diety] composed of simple planks of wood. At this moment this boarded covering is under repair, the dry-rot having damaged the timber. In the Choir we found a beautiful black marble altar, with two modern statues of the Virgin & St. Peter. In the middle was a tabernacle, decorated with 7 Columns, the idea of wh: is taken from the 9: ch: [?out] of the Proverb of Solomon " - Wisdom has built a house, & has employed seven pillars &c." - These Columns. of white marble, are fluted, & adorned with capitals, cornices,[?] & tiles of Gold. The whole of thier whimisical structure is in wretched taste with the ancient Gothic, that surrounds it. The original grand altar, 60 ft high, of dark marble, with its tasteful ornaments & magnificient Candelabra, was destroyed in 1769 by the advice of some ignorant members of the great Chapter. The walls of the Choir are lined with tapestry, of wh: the designs were furnished by Rubens & executed by him on several large pictures. The 12 stone statues of the apostles, on the side of the Columns, are in good style. The painted windows are very worthy of attention. On the glass are represented, [?ing] a great crowd of finely executed figures, the arms of many of the ancient patrician nobles of the town. Behind the great Altar was one in the Ionic style, of marble, containing the relie[?f] of the Magi or three Kings. It was built by the Elector Maxmilian Joseph of Bavaria. After the capture, & entire destruction of Milan, Frederic 1st., of the house of Hohenstaufen, presented to Reinold, Archbishop of Cologne, who had accompanied him in the campaign, the bones & skulls of the three Magi, & by the Archbishop they were deposited in that Chapel about 1170. The ancient tombs of the 3. Kings, as well as those of the Martyrs, Nabor, & Gregory of Spolette, were plundered of their treasures during the Meno[h?] revolution. Many have since been recovered & replaced,
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thro' [through] Dijon Capital of Bur-gundy Burgundy, - formerly [Dinio?] } - a handsome & clean town - Tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy in the Cathedral - Two Boulevards, Parc de Colembier Parc de Colombiere - Palais de Conde C1793 the mu- -nicipality - Facade of the Church of St. Michael - & the College -
to Chalons Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon } Bridge - Hospital & Quay - Saint Marcel once contained the tomb of Abelard & Eloise Heloise - public walks -
to Lyons } by water - [Cochedeau?] - (11." F. Patron: 1.F.") - beau-tiful & romantic views - particularly after passing the Isle de Cambe? - Cathedral - curious clock - Ruins of a Roman theatre, & aqueduct on the Mountain of St. Just - the exterior of la Charite & hotel Dieu - Abbaye St. Fleme - Place de bellecour - Hotel de Ville very handsome - remark Claudius's o-riginal speech on two tablets of brass in its vestibule - The Quays particularly that on the Rhone - Hills from this walk beautiful - public Library - the Junction of the Soane, & Rhone - the diffe-rent apperance of the two streams - distant Alps.
To Cerdon } Its situation - Lake of Nantua - loss of the Rhone near [Avanchy?] - Fort l'Écluse - on the right Mt. Blanc Mont Blanc - on the left Mt Jura Mont Jura - the whole road from Lyons to Geneva is truly beautiful - romantic & scarcely to be equalled -
& to Geneva } Lake - Environs - Setting of the Sun on the distant Alps - Junction of Rhone & Arve - beautiful color of the former river-
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