Bakewell’s Travels in the Tarentaise, &c. 
delightful summer retreats to the opu- 
Tent citizens. The winter at) Lyons is 
Tess severe and of shorter duration than 
at Paris; but the heat of the summer 
months is unfavourable'to manufacturmg 
industry. In'respect to climate, there- 
fore, Manchester and Glasgow have 
greatly’ the advantage over Lyons, as 
mantfacturing towns, except that Lyons 
enjoys two'hours more daylight in the 
winter months. Coal of a good quality 
is found atno great distance from Ly- 
ons; the nearest pits are about seven 
miles below the city, not far from the 
Rhéne. The Lyonese are, however, 
onfy beginning to avail themselves of 
its use in their manufactures. 
The inhabitants of Lyons and its 
suberbs formerly amounted to 160,000; 
they are now estimated at 150,000, their 
number being diminished during ‘the 
revolution. The principal manufactures 
are that of silks and gold and silver tis- 
sues, for which this city has been long 
eclebrated ; >the manufacture of gal- 
Joons; ‘ribbons, and bindings; and, third 
ly, of hats; bonnets, and stationery wares, 
to which must be added gold and silver 
wire-drawers, dyers, &c.: these differ- 
ent manufactures are said to employ 
eighty thousand persons. © 
~ J had an opportunity of seeing alarge 
portion of the manufacturing population 
of Lyons amusing themselves in the 
fields ona féte day. ‘There were ‘se- 
veral thousands playing at bowls and 
other diversions; their wives and chil- 
dren were also present. Twas. highly 
gratified in observing the quiet cheer-, 
fulness, sobriety, and good temper, which 
prevailed, and the respect aud civility 
willi which the lowest classes of citi- 
zens addressed ‘each other. It) was 
altogether different: from the veciferons 
brawling,swearivg,and quarrelling,which 
would have been beard among the 
same number of English people col- 
lected in any of our manufacturing dis- 
tricts. 
~The quais and buildings facing the 
Rhone are very magnifieent. The 
square called Place Bellecour, is spa- 
cious, and worthy of a great city. At 
each end are two very handsome build= 
ings; they are exactly similar. On 
otie side isa public promenade, planted 
with rows of trees. ‘The quais and 
buildings, and bridges on the Saone, 
have also'an imposing-appearance ; but 
in the interior of the city the streets are 
narrow, dark, audintricate, like those in 
all very ancient towns, : 
There is a chapel, dedicated to the 
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Virgin, called the chapel of Notre Dame 
de Fourviere, placed where''the ‘Forum 
Vetus formerly stood: this’ chapel ‘has 
been long celebrated for the miraelés 
which the Virgin performed, and. pil- 
grimages to Fourviere were wadertaken 
from’a great distance. During ‘the re- 
volution the chapel’ was closed, till the 
pope, on his last visit'to Lyons) in 1804, 
ordered it to ‘be re-opened) ‘and or- 
dained that plenary indulgences might 
be granted bere daily. The anniversary 
of this precious gift'to ‘the chapel’ of 
Notre Dame de fourvierc, was cele- 
brated while we were at Lyons, by a 
religious procession, which set oat from 
the cathedral and mounted the hill to 
perform a grand mass in the chapel.!» Tt 
was announced the day licfore by printed 
bills, posted all over the city, and’ con- 
taining the order of the archbishop for 
the ceremony. The ‘people of Lyons 
took little interest in this religious 
farce. A number of old women,’ of the 
tower class, carried ‘tapers, and were 
preceded by the choristers of the ¢a- 
thedral, and about twelve priests, some 
of whom’ were excessively” corpulent; 
like’ the friars of the *‘* olden’ ‘time 3” 
their appearance told plainly’ that’ they 
knew liow to grant themselves “plenary 
indulgence” without the aid of the pope: 
The procession ascended the bill, chant- 
ing, and we followed it into ‘the chapely 
which contaius nothing worthy of no- 
tice, except the eavoto offerings that ate 
huug up in immense numbers! against the 
walls, to exhibit the pious ‘evatitade of 
the votarics of the virgin, who had been 
miraculously cured by her assistance, or 
delivered from shipwreck or other im- 
mineot dangers. 
We hired w boat aud went. up ‘the 
Saone, to view the majestic scenery on 
its banks.» "Phis river is about the 
width of the thames at Windsor ; rocks 
of granite, in some parts, rise iimmedi- 
ately from the edge of the water ov both 
sides, and are surmounted’ by “forts, 
ruins, or villas, and, where the sides are 
more sloping, they ‘are’ adorned with 
horse-chesnut trees, which were then’ in 
full flower. There is a coche @’eau on 
the Saone, that goes from Lyons’ to 
Chalons, and returns every day in sum- 
mer; and, if the scenery continues similar 
to that near Lyons, it most be a most 
delightful excarsiou. Many of the ci- 
tizens go by this conveyance ‘to their 
country-houses, situated near thg banks 
of the river. The nimber of these 
houses give to the country round Lyons 
much more the appearance of being the 
Vicinity 
