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the matter was explained, that if an ordinary wcftver 

 can finifli a piece of this work in a fortnight, or three 

 u-eeks — he may, for a month following, be without 

 employment—during which interval, -they are preparing 

 materials for another web. 



0(^oher loth. We had this day a charming protne- 

 vade tlirough the m.oft beautiful alley 1 ever faw, with 

 tlie river Saone on the one fide, and the Rhone on the 

 other— It terminates at thenoble confluence of thefe two 

 rivers — On the Rhone we faw a number of very cu- 

 rious rpills for corn, and various manufaftories, eredted 

 by means of great beams of wood, by which two large 

 boats in the body, and near the fide of the river, are 

 fixed at a fmall diftance from each other, and fo plac- 

 ed, that the water confined between them makes a ftrong 

 firccim to turn the wheels, for niachinerv of differ- 

 ent kinds — All this grand work has been lately ex- 

 ecuted at a vaft ex pence by a company who became 

 bankrupt — Though a hard, yet no unprecedented fate, 

 to the firft projeftors and inventors of the moft ufeful 

 and valuable arts. 



IhQ Hotel de Ville is a grand building, which con- 

 tains many handfcme apartments for the accommoda- 

 tion ot all ranks of men in the offices of government — • 

 The Echevin, and CoTJwdcuit, Procureur General, &c. — 

 The great hall is truly magnilicent ; — the walls are 

 covered round with portraits of diftinguifhed charac- 

 ters — fomc of them itniarkably fine paintings. — Thefe 

 are feveral elegant apartments ornamented in the fame 

 manner ftr the clumbers of juftice, police, and com- 

 merce — Anciently this city was a republic. — By degrees 

 the monarch ingrofi'ed, in effeft, all power. — Still the 

 community of merchants eletl three perfons, and the 

 kmg nominates one of them to be Echevin, or chief 

 magilhatc — In the neighbourhood of this and all fiou- 

 rithing cities in France, there are many "fine villas, pcl- 

 fefled not only by the nobles and perlons of i:ffluent for- 

 tunes, but aU'o by thrivi;;g burgelles of all denominu- 



