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Full text | 342 - Route 30. MALMEDY. : From Spa» passing the Sauveniére and the woods with which the town i | surrounded, the road emerges on a high level district of barrear: heath called des fagnes : the wooden cross on rt., la croix a Malchamps, commemorates the numerous murders for which thi road was formerly notorious : the view from here is very exteme: sive, in the distance on the Prussian frontier may be seen Jl | baraque Michel, a hospice for benighted travellers, built on. height 2,230 ft. above the level of the sea; it was founded by yx rich merchant of Sart near Spa, who, having lost his way in thilt snow, made a vow to found an institution of this kind if he escao: ped from the death which appeared so imminent : it has beess recently enlarged and its endowment increased by a pious familfic at Stavelot ; a bell is rung every night and during the day also it ¢ foggy weather at regular intervals. On rt. is the old road tt Stavelot, running along the valley of the Dulnosus, a. tributarzs of the Ambléve, shorter than the new one, but fatiguing from thd number of ascents and descents; consequently it is’little nse@e and is’ now overgrown with heath. 10 kil: Francorcuamps. Here the road bifurcates, the rt. hands: branch running to Stayelot (P. 343), the 1. to Malmedy; thal latter is double, the old road running in a straight line up andm. down hill and ending in a very rapid descent, down a steep‘hill oo red sandstone, from the table land into the town; the new onan formed of basalt, well laid out, winding down gradually. Abounc 1-4/2.m. from Francorchamps is the Prussian custom-house, wherés the baggage is examined. 9 kil. Marwepy. Inn: H. du Cheval blanc. 4200 Inhabsax A small but very clean town seated on the Warchenne, a tribu-y tary of the Warge. It anciently formed part of the domains op the Prince Abbat of Stavelot ; in 1814 it was incorporated in ther kingdom of the Low Countries, and became a Belgian town, but after the battle of Waterloo it was, by the 2nd treaty of Parisai given to the King of Prussia. It is celebrated for its tanneriesge there being about 50 in active work,. these supply the greatezs! part of Germany ‘with sole leather for shoes. DILIGENCE : daily to Spa at 6 a, m. in 3 hrs. ; fare, 1 fr. 88 c. : dailyzli to Treves at 4.30 p. m. in 11 hrs.; far e, 11 frs. 50 c. : to Luxemburg ats 4.30p.m. in 15 1/2 hrs.; far e, 13 frs, Environs : An agreeable pedestrian excursion may be madeyh from here up the valley of the Warge to Brversie and Renarsn STEIN, 6 M.: opposite Beversée is a mineral fountain calledbs Powhon des cuves : at Renarstein are the ruins of a castles! where, according to local tradition, the 4 sons of Aymon tookie refuge when pursued by Charlemagne, after that Renaud, theos eldest of the 4, had killed his nephew Berthelot. |
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