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Church of 

 St John. 



Church of 



Notre 



Dame. 



Dijon. It was founded in the 12th century. In 1613, it was 

 created into a collegiate church, and in 1731 it became 

 the cathedral. It is 191 feet long, 56 wide, and 48 

 high under the'roof. It is surmounted with a very fine 

 belfry, covered with lead, and having a large bell and 

 a chime ; and the front of the church is of modern 

 architecture, from the designs of a pupil of Mansard. 

 It is adorned with a large has relief of the famous Bou- 

 chardon, representing the martyrdom of St Stephen. 

 This church contains several statues, paintings, and relics. 

 The collegiate church of St John is built in the form 

 of a cross. It is 168 feet long, and as many broad. 

 The spire, which is about 330 feet high above the pave- 

 ment of the church, is greatly admired. The church is 

 adorned with one large painting by Revel. 



The church of Notre Dame is esteemed one of the 

 most perfect models of Gothic architecture in Europe. 

 It was built in the 13th century. The galleries are 

 formed of small pillars of one piece, six inches in diame- 

 ter, and from fifteen to thirty feet high. The roof is a 

 piece of exquisite workmanship, and the front is truly 

 magnificent. During the fury of the revolution, how- 

 ever, the statues in the pedentives were broken to pieces. 

 M. Vauban was so struck with the perfection of this 

 building, that he exclaimed that nothing was wanting 

 but a box to preserve it in. The archives of the town 

 are preserved in one of the towers, and upon the other 

 tower, in the front of the church, is a clock with moving 

 figures, which Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, trans- 

 ported to Dijon, after the sack of Courtray. 



The church of the Bernardines possesses a fine ro- 

 tunda, terminated by a ball of gilt copper, and the 

 principal altars are adorned with an excellent painting 

 by J. B. Corneille. 



Besides the churches which Ave have described, there 

 are several others, and a great number of convents, 

 which we cannot afford room to describe. 

 Chartreuse. The chartreuse, which was at the distance of a quar- 

 ter of a league from the town, was founded in 1383. 

 The monuments of Philip the Bold, of John the Fearless, 

 and his Duchess Margaret of Bavaria, were of Parian 

 marble, and were esteemed the finest productions of the 

 arts. The figures reposed on superb tables of black 

 marble, and at each tomb were two angels supporting 

 the helmets of the dukes. Of these splendid monu- 

 ments, a few mutilated fragments and figures only re- 

 main, to testify the loss which the arts sustained by the 

 disorders of the revolution. The plough-share has now 

 passed over a great part of the monastery which con- 

 tained them. 



The great hospital, called Notre Dame de la Charite, 

 is deemed one of the finest establishments in France ; 

 ornament and utility being equally consulted by the 

 architect. Besides this, there is the hospital of St Anne, 

 and several other charitable institutions. 



The promenades of Dijon are numerous and elegant. 

 The ramparts, which encircle the city, afford more than 

 an hour's walk, and command a view of the summit of 

 Mont Blanc and Mont Gemni. The gardens of Mont- 

 musarcl, which are laid out in the English style, and 

 the park which formerly belonged to the prince of 

 Conde, are the most spacious. After the revolution, the 

 city of Dijon purchased it for a public promenade, and 

 laid it out in regular straight walks, from plans by Le 

 Nostre. The river Ouche runs at one end of it. The 

 Arquebuse, which was formerly the place of exercise for 

 the cross-bow company, has been converted into an 

 agreeable rural house of entertainment. It is a small 

 house with a pleasant garden, planted in the English 



manner, and the ground floor forms a covered gallery, Dijon, 

 where the company can retire during rain. H . 



Several fine pieces of antiquity have been found in J tl ™*' l 

 Dijon. In the garden of the house of M. Richard de ~*~ 

 Veorottes, is a wall in which are preserved forty-two Antiqui- 

 monuments of antiquity, which have been found in the ties. 

 city. In the middle of the wall is a black marble ta- 

 blet, with the following inscription in letters of gold : 



Mjec veterum monumentorum fragmenta e ru- 

 neribus primjev^e urbis dlvionensis juxta templum 

 Divi Stephani feliciter eruta ad publicam utili- 



TATEM ET HORTORUM ORNAMENTUM -ZEgiDIUS GeRMA- 



nus Richard de Ruffey in suprema rationum Bur- 



GUNDI.E CURIA PRjESES EMERITUS SERVANDA CURAVIT. 



Anno M.DCCLXXXI. An account of these monu- 

 ments has been given by the celebrated antiquarian 

 Millin, in the ninth chapter of his Travels. 



The principal manufactures of Dijon are woollen Manufae- 

 stuffs, serges, calmouks, hosiery goods, playing cards, tures. 

 leather, pottery ware, wax candles, hats, and silk stock-' 

 ings. There is also a cotton manufactory, and an exten- 

 sive nursery. 



Dijon carries on a considerable trade in corn, cattle, Commerce. 

 and wine, which is sent to Paris, Strasbourg, Holland, 

 and Switzerland, and it will be greatly facilitated by 

 the new canal from St Jean de Losne to Dijon. It was 

 unfinished in 1805, five sluices being wanting. It ap- 

 pears, however, to have been lately finished, and the 

 branch from Dijon to St Florentin is now cutting. The 

 fairs, which continue eight days, are held on the 10th 

 March, the 10th June, and the 10th November. Po- 

 pulation 22,000. East Long. 5° 2' 5", and North Lat. 

 47° 19' 25", by trigonometrical operations. SeeMontfau- 

 cen's Anliquit. Expliq. torn. iii. p. 240. for an engraving 

 of the Diptic of Dijon, which is now in the museum ; 

 Journal des Batimens el des Arts. No. 110. and 112; 

 Reichard's Guide des Voyageurs en France ; Millia's Tra- 

 vels through the Southern Departments of France, chap. 

 viii, ix ; Lemaistre's Travels, vol. i; Herbin Statistique . 

 de France ; and Tynna's Almanac du Commerce, pour 

 1811. (:t) 



DILATATION. See Expansion. 



D1LATRIS, a genus of plants of the class Triandria, 

 and order Monogynia. See Botany, p. 96. 



DILIVARIA, a genus of plants of the class Didyna- 

 mia, and order Angiospermia. See Brown's Prodrom. 

 Plant. Nov. Holl. S?c. p. 480, and Botany, p. 259. 



DILLENIA, a genus of plants of the class Polyan- 

 dria, and order Polygynia. See Botany, p. 240. 



DILLENIUS, John James, a distinguished bota- 

 nist, in the early part of the eighteenth century, was 

 born at Darmstadt, in Germany, in 1 687. While pro- 

 secuting his medical studies at the University of Giessen, 

 in Upper Hessia, he shewed his predilection for bota- 

 nical pursuits. Of six communications which he pre- 

 sented to the Imperial German Academy, and which 

 are printed in their Miscellanea Curiosa, no fewer than 

 five treated of subjects connected with botany ; and in 

 1719, he published, in octavo, a List of the Plants indi- 

 genous to the neighbourhood of Giessen, illustrated by 

 some figures of his own engraving. 



Sherard, the enlightened and Hberal British consul 

 at Smyrna, having recently before returned home, had 

 his attention drawn towards Dillenius by the publica- 

 tion of this local Flora; and in 1721, prevailed on him 

 to remove to England, and settle in London. 



In this country Dillenius first brought himself into 

 notice, by publishing an improved edition of the Sy- 

 nopsis Stirpium of the illustrious Ray. Here he dis- 



