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to Mouzon. ITAS TIERE. Route 41. 389
midimensions are 144 ft. 4 in. by 59 ft., of which the choir occupies
#68 ft. 7 in. by 29. ft. 6in. The Choir stalls, carved in oak, are
sivery anct.; the stone lectern, font, and holy water stoup are
jzist pointed. Here are also a tombofa knight, of marble, sup-
gported by 4 kneeling figures of men, XV cent., and 2 fineincised
sleslabs, 1336 and 4480. In the neighbourhood is a Castle of the
VAXY cent., flanked by 6 towers, two of which are surmounted by
scusmall spires; it belongs to the Count de Liedekerke Beaufort.
At Fourrooz, 4 1/4 m. S. of Dinant, are the ruins of a formid-
jid#able Roman fortress seated on the top of a rock called Hautere-
‘cenne; several gold medals of Constantine and Valentinian have
@been found here. *
A pleasant excursion may be made from here to Rochefort,
fl Hans sur Lesse and S. Hubert; see Rte. 42, p. 394.
_ About 1/2 a mile above Dinant, the road, which has crossed to the
‘jit. bank by a stone-bridge constructed in 1718, runs through a
kind of natural archway, formed on thert. by a bold isolated mass
of rock called the Roche & Bayard, and on the 1. by precipitous
cliffs from which projects a long narrow ridge of rock. This cleft
was widened by order of Louis XIV toimprove the road up the
valley. Near here are quarries of black marble. Immediately
y above is ANSEREMME, a pretty village with overhanging cliffs, situ-
sated close to the junction of the Lesse and Meuse. The next vil-
(lage, Z., is Moniat, beyond which is Freyr, celebrated for its na-
ural grotto situated in the upper part of a calcareous mountain
about 88 ft. above the level of the river; it consists of 8 cham-
bers communicating with each other by galleries and abounding in
stalactites; one of the chambers is singularly lighted by an
;) aperture in the rock : the entrance is within the grounds of the
i) Duchess of Beaufort-Spontin, whose Chateau is seated on the 1.
bank, at the foot of a richly-wooded hill furrowed by ravines,
Here was signed, 25 Oct. 1678, the first commercial treaty be-
tween the French and Spanish. Opposite Freyr, the limestone
5 cliffs, which rise directly from the Meuse, are much broken up
pas) and present picturesque forms; occasionally the upper part projects
> so far beyond the perpendicular as completely to overhang the
ovit river. After passing Facaicnou, 7t., and Waursort, 7., we arrive
{ in| at Hasriere, formerly celebrated for its abbey founded c. 880 by
oO Count Wigeric and his son Adalberon, Bp. of Metz, on which see
ji) it depended until 1227 when it passed to the Bps. of Liege : it
upw) was sacked by the Calvinists in 1568. The Church, a 8 aisled
cruciform building with apsidal choir, remained however intact
until within the last few years, when the transept, choir aisles
j and chapels were pulled down, because the building was too
oisl large!:the materials were sold. The nave is separated from the
22.
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