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occasionally disappears from view. Another pleasant walk may be taken
to the 8. through the rocky valley of Mosbeux, with a handsome chateau,
via Louveigné (805 ft.) and Deigné, to (21/2 hrs.) Remouchamps (p. 264).
From Trooz a light railway runs via Sgrimont to Poulseur (p. 259).
o Aix-la-Chapelle. VERVIERS.
Several tunnels now bring us into the weapon-manufacturing
part of Belgium. Various chateaux are passed ( Fraipont-Bas, Colon-
heid, etc.). Beyond (10 M.) eee (360 ft.) the line passes
through four tunnels. — About 2 M. farther on, to the right, is the
Chateau des Masures, with a large park.
13 M. Pepinster (445 ft.; Hot. de Bellevue, R. 2, D. 44/5 fr.;
Buffet), with 3000 inhab the junction for Spa and Luxembourg
(see R. 32). The name is said to be derived from Pepin, the
Frankish majordomo (p. 434).
Beyond (15 M.) Ensival (500 ft.), on the left, we thread a tunnel.
16 M. Verviers. — Railway Stations. 1. Verviers-Oues/, the main
), with the Custom House; the examination of registered
gium (comp. <x) entails a long wait.. — 2. Ver-
station for Vienna, Ostend, and the North Express, and also
station serving the E. quarters of the town.
E-Fer, Rue de la Concorde 53, opposite the
{. from the station, 30 R. at 2!/2-6, B. U/s, dej.
“9 ALL NE, Rue de la Station, D. 11/2 cn ; Sr. JEAN,
> near the Plz Ee ratee-a B. 3/4, déj. 11/2, D. 2 fr. ;
$ Neuf Provinces and several brasseries in the
with one horse 4 fr., with two horses 41/2 fr. ;
double fares at night (11-6); two-horse cab to La Gileppe (p. 274), 10 fr. —
Electric Tramway between the stations and to Heusy (p. 274), Ensival (see
above), etc. tric light-railway via Diége to Spa projected.
Verviers (540 ft.), with 49,000 inhab., 73,000 including the
suburbs, is situated chiefly on the left bank of the Vesdre, in the
valley and on the slope of the hill. It is the centre of a very im-
portant cloth-making industry, which has flourished here since the
{8th cent.; wool-dyeing and tanning also are carried on. From
the principal railway-station we follow the Rue de la Station to the
right, then turn to the left into the Rue de la Tranchée, and proceed
straight on to the (1/4 hr.) Place Verte, on the E. side of which is
a fountain in memory of Burgomaster P. David (4.1839), by Viy-
roux (1883). A little farther on, on the left, is the Place du Martyr
with a bronze statue (1880) of Chapuis, a citizen executed in 1794
by the Prince Bishop of Liége, for the heinous ‘crime’ of celebrating
civil marriages. The Rue du Coll2 ge, with the post-office (right),
and the Rue des Raines lead hence to (40 min.) the principal church,
St. Remacle(1838). At the beginning of the Rue des Raines, against
a house on the ee is a fountain with a bust of Burgomester Ort-
mans-Hauzeur, who was largely responsible for the Gileppe Aque-
duct (p. 274). To reach the upper town from the Place Verte we
follow the Rue de Rome to the S., then turn to the right beyond
the railway into the Rue du Palais (adjacent, on the left, the Palais
de Justice), and a few paces farther on ascend the Hscalier de la
Paix on the left. We proceed straight on through the Rue des Villas
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