1 6 R AY^s and S K i P P o N i travels Book It 
through a Channel three or four Yards broad; Half 
a League farther brought us to our Lodging at Chaf- 
iillon. . * , • 
The 20th,We fet forward about Four in the Mornings 
and rode thro’ mountainous Ways, paffing by a Fall of 
Water called Pijfe Vache^ which Golnitz^ in his Itinerary, 
fays, runs under Ground into a Lake called la Bougie, 
chat was on our left Hand. La Bougie is divided into 
two Parts by a Wall, one Part is marfhy, belonging to 
St. Germain, the other belongs to Nantua, filled with 
Water and ftored with Fifli, We travelled through 
Nantua, a long Town with Portici like thofe of the 
Rue-has at Geneva ; it is feated at the End of the Lake 
we had on our Left Hand. This Place is noted for 
good Needles. It is three Leagues from Cha^iillon. 
Three Leagues farther we baited at Cordon, having rode 
between Box-hedges and a hilly Way, making a fteep 
Defcent juft before we arrived at Cordon, where our 
Chajfe Marin changed his Horfes. After Dinner, we 
afcended a rocky Hill, and then enter’d a Plain which 
continues to Lyons, Two Leagues from Cordon we 
ferried over the River D' Aine, and three Leagues 
thence lodged at Verhonne, This Day we took Notice 
of the Shepherds Huts made of Straw, and placed on 
little Carts. 
2. On the 2ift, at Break of Day, we mounted, and, 
after two Leagues riding, came through a walled Place, 
and three Leagues thence rode through hilly Ways till 
. we came to Lyons, where we firft went through a Sub- 
urb full of Vidualling-houfes. At the Gate we re- 
ceived a Billet to lodge in the Town, then made a 
fteep Defcent in a well paved Way, and after weighing 
of our Portmanteau’s, we took up our Lodging at the 
Efcu d*Or, or Crown of France. This is a very fair 
City, Part fituated at the Meeting of the Soane and 
Rhofne, and Part on the other Side of the Soane ; the 
Houfes are high and well built, only defaced by the 
Raggednefs of their Paper Windows. There is a great 
Commerce carried on here, and large Shops full of all 
Sorts of Wares. 
We ftaid at Lyons till the 25th of July, and re- 
marked thefe Particulars : The Mai [on de la Ville is a 
very hadfome Fabrick, having a fair fquare Piazza be- 
fore it, with a large Fountain. On one Side of the 
Piazza is a ftately Front ereding. The Rooms we 
faw here have thefe Names ; la Chamhre Confulaire, 
where the Provoft and four Efchevins fit ; la Chamhre 
de la Conservation, where the Merchants fit. In the 
Great Hall are the Pidures of the fourteen Lewis''^, 
Kings of France ; the Roof painted. Another Hall 
with the Pitftures of the Efchevins ; a little Chamber 
for Banquets, Cfc. S. Nicy is a pretty Church. La 
Charitie is the Hofpital, a great Building. N. Dame de 
Foutrier is on the other Side the Soane, built on the 
hicrheft Ground, where there is a fmall Pyramid erefted 
to the Virgin Mary. Here we had a full Profped of 
the City. Before another is a fmall Pyramid, and there- 
on is infcribed the Name of God, and Unity, and Tri- 
nity, in feveral Languages. _ 
Without St. Juii*s, Gate is a large Suburb *, the Car- 
melites, that go barefooted, have a pleafant Convent 
with large Gardens, whence a pleafant View of the 
Town. The Fryars in this City are very importunate 
Beggars, coming into Strangers Chambers. The Feaft 
of St. James was kept while We were here, and we 
faw this ProcelTion. Firft went a great Banner, then a 
great Cake or Loaf, { called Pain Benedit) upon a Fel- 
low’s Head ♦, after that two Pipes and a little Drum, 
which made fome Mufick in the Interval between the 
Fryars Singing. Belle Cour is a fpacious wide Space, 
where there is a Mall and a pleafant Walk of Trees by 
it. Mr. Palmer, Brother to the Earl of Cajilemain, was 
at this Time in Lyons, at the Academy Royal, and who 
lately turned Papift. The Proteftants are about 2000 
Families in this City, and have a Temple at St. Romain, 
two Leagues up the Soane. Monfieur Moze, an Apo- 
thecary and a Proteftant was very civil to us. 
The Monument of the two Lovers is on the other 
Side the Soane ; it feems to have been fome Roman 
Building, and is built of great Stones. Two Forts, la 
Pierre Seize on the Soane Side ♦, for St. Jean is on the 
fame Side with the Body of the City. The Soane is a 
Very flow River, and there are crofs it one Stone and 
two wooden Bridges. On one of them a Cuftomer 
demands a Liard of eVery one that pafies over. St, 
Jean is the Cathedral, which is large, and remarkable 
for a Clock with Motions like that at ttrashurgh \ every 
Hour a Cock on the Top claps his Wings tvfice, and 
crows twice ; after that an Angel comes out of a Door 
and falutes the Virgin Mary, and at the fame Time the 
Holy Ghoft defeends, and God the Father gives 
the Benedidlion. The minute Motion hath an oval 
Circle, and yet the Handle or Index always touches the 
Circumference. Invented by M. Servier. 
We had good Luck in feeing this M. ServiePs Ca- 
binet, his Humour being very difficult. He was a 
Soldier in his younger Days ; but about twenty-two 
Years ago he retired hither, and invented many inge- 
nious Pieces of Clock-work, Machines of Water, Cfr, 
which he hath deferibed with his Pen, land bound them 
up together in a thick Folio, and made the Models of 
them in Wood with his own Hand. Thefe Thinexs we 
took Notice of, which we had not before feen in Italy 
and Germany. The Hand of a Minute Watch moved 
every Time the Ball fprings up ; in a certain Engine, a 
Lizard creeping up a perpendicular Rule, ffiews the 
Hour of the Day. A Moufe creeping upon a Rule, 
placed horizontally, doth the like. Thefe are done by 
Magnets ; An Hour-Glafs that turns of itfelf, when 
the Sand is run out, and at the fame Time the Hour 
Figure placed over the Glafs, is changed. Several hy- 
draulick Machines. An Atlas bearing a Globe, and 
upon its Equator was fhewn the Hour of the Day. The 
Clock upon a declining Plane does not go when placed 
upon an horizontal Plane. A Ball put in at the 
Mouth of a winding Serpent runs through it, and af- 
terwards pafies up the Tail of another placed on a 
moveable Axis, and comes out of his Mouth. A Tor- 
toife put into a Bafon of Water, will never ftand ftill 
till he points to the Time of the Day. A Balajira to 
fiioot Granada’s at a certain Diftance. A Circle, with 
the feveral Humours of Perfons written on it, and if 
you touch the Gnomon or Index, it wifi point to the 
Humour (as is pretended) of him that touches it. A 
Door that opens both Ways. Two Gates, when one 
fiiiits, the other opens. Two Dials, a pretty Diftance 
from one another, moving the Index of the one, turns 
the Index of the other ; but when M. Servier took a 
little Piece of Iron or Load-ftone (colour’d white) out 
of the Point or End of the Index that was moved, the 
other would not ftir. A Cannon to flioot downwards ; 
it is placed on a declining Carriage, an Axis with Cords 
winds it backwards and forwards, and when the Can- 
non comes to the further End, a Circle of Lead is 
round the Mouth. We were told, that the Germans 
living in Lyons have great Privileges ; that they have 
diftinfl Courts to judge Civil and Criminal Matters, 
and when they make Harangues to the King they Ipeak 
ftanding. 
3. The 25th, Hiring a Poftilion for Louis d*Or 
a Man, we left Lyons, and rode over a long Stone 
Bridge, crofs the Rhofne, and then paflTed through a 
large Suburb, and entered on a large Plain, where we 
travelled four Leagues,and after that rode thro’ a pleafant 
Country, caft up into Hillocks, and fix Leagues from 
Lyons, dined at Artas, having pafied through but one 
Village before. After Noon we came through Merieu, 
la Baftie, Champier, and at Night lodged in la Frett, 
three Leagues from Artas. 26th, We rode a good 
Way in a level Valley, and at two Leagues from la 
Frett went through Moyran ; a little from thence we 
entered between the Mountains, and travelled through 
a fruitful Valley, planted like Lombardy, with Rows of 
Trees and Vines climbing about them j fbmetimes we 
mounted ftony Hills, among them pafied through Rives 
a Village noted for its Iron Works ; four Leagues from 
Moyran, we arrived at Grenoble, riding by a double Pall 
Mall, juft before we entered the City. This Night it 
fnowed on the Mountains near Grenoble. 
Grenoble 
