[57] Farin tells us that you could go from the top of the lantern to the
    cross, or to the summit of the belfry, “outside, without a ladder; so
    admirable was the workmanship.”  “Strangers (adds he) took models of it
    for the purpose of getting them engraved, and they were sold publicly
    at Rome.” Hist. de la Ville de Rouen, 1738, 4to. vol. ii. p. 154. 
    There are thirteen chapels within this church; of which however the
    building cannot be traced lower than quite the beginning of the XVIth
    century.  The extreme length and width of the interior is about 155 by
    82 feet English.  Even in Du Four’s time the population of this parish
    was very great, and its cemetery (adds he) was the first and most
    regular in Rouen.  He gives a brief, but glowing description of it—­“on
    va tout autour par des galeries couvertes et pavees; et, deux de ces
    galeries sont decorees de deux autels,” &c. p. 150.

    Alas! time—­or the revolution—­has annihilated all this.  Let me
    however add that M. COTMAN has published a view of the staircase in
    the church of which I am speaking.

[58] Ordericus Vitalis says, that the dying monarch requested to be
    conveyed thither, to avoid the noise and bustle of a populous town. 
    Rouen is described to be, in his time, “populosa civitas.” 
    Consult Duchesne’s Historiae Normannor.  Scrip.  Antiq. p.656.

[59] A view of it is published by M. Cotman.

[60] St. Sever.  This church is situated in the southern fauxbourgs,
    by the side of the Seine, and was once surrounded by gardens, &c.  As
    you cross the bridge of boats, and go to the race-ground, you leave it
    to the right; but it is not so old as St. Paul—­where, Farin says,
    the worship of ADONIS was once performed!

LETTER VI.

HALLES DE COMMERCE.  PLACE DE LA PUCELLE D’ORLEANS (JEANNE D’ARC.)
BASSO-RILIEVO OF THE CHAMP DE DRAP D’OR.  PALACE AND COURTS OF JUSTICE.

You must make up your mind to see a few more sights in the city of Rouen, before I conduct you to the environs, or to the summit of Mont St. Catherine.  We must visit some relics of antiquity, and take a yet more familiar survey of the town, ere we strive

  ... superas evadere ad auras.

Indeed the information to be gained well merits the toil endured in its acquisition.  The only town in England that can give you any notion of Rouen, is CHESTER; although the similitude holds only in some few particulars.  I must, in the first place then, make especial mention of the HALLES DE COMMERCE.  The markets here are numerous and abundant, and are of all kinds.  Cloth, cotton, lace, linen, fish, fruit, vegetables, meat, corn, and wine; these for the exterior and interior of the body.  Cattle,