AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. 



"o FONS BANDUSIiE SPLENDIDIOR VITRO." 



The traveller may reach this renowned city in 

 an easy day's journey from Calais, or from Ostend. 

 It is charmingly situated in the bosom of surround- 

 ing hills, where corn fields, wood and pasture seem 

 to vie with each other in tempting the health- 

 seeking stranger, to take up his abode amongst 

 them during the ever welcome sunshine of a 

 summer season. 



I own; that I am not easily captivated by Euro- 

 pean scenery, be it ever so magnificent, after 

 having wandered through the boundless beauties of 

 tropical America ; still, when I have arrived at Aix- 

 la-Ohapelle, I feel lost in admiration ; and there 

 succeeds to my mind, a calm and a composure, not 

 easily to be described; and I find out new objects 

 of wonder, both in town and country on each suc- 

 ceeding visit. 



Aix-la-Chapelle presents an instructive memento 

 in undoubted features, to all who find their way 



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