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{ Rivage (Hotel de la
to Jemelle HAMOIR. 7. Route, 259
flight of stone steps, while the carriage-road describes a long circuit.
1e views from ee top, particularly from the Beaumont. ‘Near the
of rock. 1 1e park of the Domaine du Rond
e Esneux is the most pictur-
is a favourite point
a
Chaine (M. Montefior
esque i, in the lower valley of the Ourthe, and
ons from Liége.
edt (12 M.) ) Poulseur (steam-tramway to Trooz, p. 272) the
train crosses the river, the banks of which are disfigured by extensive
limestone and s Above the village rises a massive old
astle of Montfort,
once one of the seats of the ‘Quatre Fils Aymon’ (p. 261). The
train crosses the Ourthe and reaches ( gus M.)
tation), where the Ambléve Railway diverges
to the left (see p. Oy:
The Ourthe rai beyond Rivage crosses Ambléve and
reaches (10 M.) Goumblaen’ au-Pont { 360 ft.; Hot. a eae at the
station, with garden, good). a village prettily situated on th ie left
pank of the river, 3/, M. from the station, which lies at the foot of a
precipitous cliff. On a rocky one rises the ivy-clad tower of
a ruined church. Steam-tramway to (161/> M.) Clavier (p. 270).
The train now passes through a tunnel to (17/5 M.) Comblain-
la-Tour (Hotel de l’Ourthe), situated at the mouth of ies Comblain
brook, with rocky environs. Light railway to Ferritres (M.) under
construction (to be continued to Amonines, see p. 260} The valley
soon expands and becomes more attractive.
201/2 M. Hamoir (395 ft. ; Hot. du Chemin-de-Fer, at the station,
R. 11/p-2, B. 3/4, D. 2, pens. 6 fr. ), a considerable village on the left
bank. On the right bank, farther up, lies the chateau of Hamoir-
Lassus, with a large park. One of the most picturesque parts of
the valley is between Hamoir and Bomal (see below), the scenery
being pleasantly varied by meadows, richly-wooded slopes, and
frownin > cliffs.
te quarries.
s of
cross the hill,
Sy (Simon’s Inn), a a pup of houses
path through the meadows he cends the left
bank, pa g “the mouth of the tunnel] and suddenly affording a view
y of a narrc and sombre rocky y. At the end of the tunnel we cross
3 again (ferry) to the farm of on the r ascend with
a boy as guide to the mode au, occupying the site of the castle of
Logne, which, like the Chz was one of the chief seats of
the redoubtable Count de 1] ace 261). At the top is a grotto, the
Cave Notre-Dame. r the rung the Aywaille (p. 261) and Boma)
road, by which the latter ate may now be reached past the Roche
de Hierneu.
Beyond Hamoir the train cros
penetrates a lofty cliff by means of a tunnel,
(25 M.) Bomal (450 ft.; Hétel de la Station), at the mouth of the
Aisne, commanded by the chateau with its terraced gardens, is a
handsome-looking place
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the river several times and
The large village of
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