Chap. IV. through F 
Grenoble is a Jarge City ficuated in a fruitful and plea- 
fant Valley near the Meeting of the Rivei: Drac with 
the Tfere. The Houfes are generally meanly built, and 
the Streets are not handfome. A long Street (on the 
other Side of the Tfere) joined to the City by a wooden 
and a Stone Bridge. On the fame Side, upon the Top 
of a high Hill, is a Fort called la Baftik', a Wall runs 
up that Hill. The Arfenal is another Fort guarded 
now by about 150 Soldiers, The Cathedral is a mean 
Church. The Jefuits are building a neat Chapel. The 
Pfoteftants are here about 5000, their Temple is within 
the Walls, and is of an octagonal Figure, with a tall 
Roof; within , are Seats for Counfellors of Parliament 
and Perfons of Condition, a little Gallery with wicker 
Windows, where many Times Popilh Gentry, iBc. fit 
incognito^ three Minifters. The Duke of Lefdiguie- 
reBs Palace has fine fliady Walks, and a fair Garden. 
The Bifhop of this City is a Prince ; within the Pa- 
lace is a Room where the Parliament fits, the Lacqueys 
will fuller no Swords to be worn here, except you give 
them a fmall Piece of Money. Ancient Infcriptions on 
fome of the Gates which are printed in Golnitzh Itine- 
rary. Three Liards paid for every Horfe that palTes 
the Bridge with Stone Arches. We vifited a Garden 
of Simples belonging to a Counfellor of Parliament, 
(who was civil to usj and Monfieur Bernard, an Apo- 
thecary. 
4. On the 2 yth. Paying four Crowns for two HoiTes 
and a Guide, we immediately rode out of the City, af- 
cended the Mountains, and at a League’s Dillance came 
thro’ a Village call’d Sapene, and a League and a half 
further pafs’d through the Valley of Ckartreufe Village. 
Thele Valleys, among the high Mountains or Alps are 
well cultivated, having great Store of Oats, and other 
Corn and Meadow Ground. At a narrow PafTage 
between two high precipitous Rocks, we pafled over a 
Bridge, crofs a Torrent, and knocking at a Gate, were 
let in by a Servant belonging to the Monaftery of the 
Chartreufe ; then we afcended a mountainous W,ay above 
a Quarter of a League, till we palled by a large Build- 
ing, where Perfons of all Trades live, and who are ha- 
bited like the Fathers of the Carthufian Orders, and 
work for the Convent. A good Diftance firther up 
we arrived at the Grande Chartreufe, where the Porter 
alk’d us whence we came, and called a Lay-Brother, 
who introduced us into one of the Halls appointed to 
receive Strangers in. ' At the Gate we left our 
Swords and Piftols. Seven Hours riding from Greno- 
ble hither. 
This Convent is feated under one of the highefl; 
Mountains in thefe Parts, and difcovers far and near 
into the adjacent Countries. As loon as we came into 
the Hall, Wine, Bread and Cheefe were fet before us, 
and one of the Fathers, a very intelligent Man, vifited 
and difcourfed fometime with us about the News of 
Europe, which he was no Stranger to. A Boy guided 
us up into the Mountains, and lliewed us a neat Cha- 
pel, dedicated to S. Maria de Cafalibus, which is pret- 
tily adorn’d With the Letters of her Name in Gold, and 
with Scripture Epithets : Beyond this we faw S. Bruno\ 
Chapel, built on a Rock. At Night we had our Sup- 
per and Beds prepared for us. We obferved the Friars, 
at Even Song, bowing their Heads as they fat, at the 
Saying the Gloria Patri, [pc. Sixty Fathers, and as many 
Lay Brothers here. No Women but thofe of the royal 
Blood can enter this Cloifter. There are two Ways 
more to come to this Convent, befides that from Gre- 
noble, viz. one from Lyons, and the other from Cham- 
herry. In their Stable they keep about fixty Horfes be- 
lides Mules and Affes. * 
28th, We faw their Church, a dark and narrow 
Building ; before the Altar ftand four tall Brafs Candle- 
fticks, within the Choir the Fathers fit, and without 
fit the Lay-Brothers. The Fathers rife to their De- 
votions at Midnight, and are in the Choir three Hours, 
but then they fleep till Seven or Eight in the Mornino-, 
when the Maffes begin. The Cloifter is a very long and 
narrow Square ; we went info one of their Cells which 
are not kept fo neat as thofe we faw at Venice, Ac 
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Meal Time feveral Servants bring Bread, Wine, ipc, 
and open a little V/indow by the Side of the Cell-Door^ 
and there put in the Provifion. On Fridays they fall 
ftridtly, and this Day we faw what they eat, viz. two’ 
or three Spoonfuls of cold Peafe boil’d, four or five 
Pears, and a few ftewed Prunes and raw Plumbs, be- 
fides a fmall Pittance of Bread and \Vine, and at 
Night they had no Supper. In the Refediorium are 
two Tables befides the Prior’s •, at the upper End 
they dme here together, only on Sundays and great 
Feftivals. ' 
In the General of the Order’s Lodging, we obferv- 
ed the Pidtures of Sc, Martin at Naples^ the Chertrufe 
of Pavia, and the Convent nigh Avignon, &c. Places 
belonging to this Order. In the Chapel is an Altar 
Piece of great Value. In the Chapter-Room is a large 
Pidlure, ho,w feven of this Order were executed for 
Treafon (they fay for Religion) -in Henry the Vlllth’s 
Days, in England. Cardinal Richlieu profdkd himfelf 
firll of this Order. The Lodgings to entertain Princes 
in are very neat; the Chapel there is within crofted over 
with Marble ; we gave the Cook a ^lart d'Efeue, and 
having eaten our Breakfaft, and written our Nam.es in 
a Rook kept by a Porter, we mounted and rode back 
to Grenoble the fame Way we came. 
5. vVe frayed in Grenoble till Aiigud the firft, and 
one Day rode out, and after twice fording the River 
Brae (which makes a great Wafh) at a League’s Dif- 
tance, w&nt ovtr Pont de Clef, a large Arch crofs that 
River, where we paid one Sol a Man ; a League fur- 
ther we pafiTed through a large Village called Vif, and 
about a League thence by S, Bartholomew, another Vil- 
lage, and Chafteau Ber?iard, where we faw Flame break- 
ing out of the Side of a Bank, which is vulgarly call’d 
la Fountaine qui Brule ; it is by a fmall Rivulet, and 
fometimes breaks out in other Places ; juft before our 
Coming, fome other Strangers had fried Eggs 
here. The Soil hereabouts is full of a black Stone 
like our Coal, which perhaps is the continual Fuel of 
this Fire. 
Augufi the if. We took Boat for Orange, and went 
down the Rivers Tfere and the Rhofne, twenty Crowns was 
given for a Boat, and the Paflengers paid proportionably 
to the Length of their Journey, fome more fome lefSi 
After we had left Grenoble three or four Leagues, we 
durft not ftir from the Banks fide, a furious Wind ari- 
fing and flopping us for the Space of an Hour. Then 
nine Leagues from Grenoble, we arrived at our Lodg- 
ging in la Faurie, a Village on the right Side of the 
Tfere. 
2d. At Break of Day, we entered our Boat, and at 
two Leagues Diftance paffed under a Bridge with Stone 
Arches, and a wooden Penthoufe over it ; Romans a 
great walled Place lay on the right Hand thence. We 
went three Leagues to the Meeting of the Tfere and 
the Rhofne, where we obferved for a good Space the 
Tfere kept itfelf unmingled vdth the Rhofne, which was 
of a whitifli Colour and much troubled, the Tfere be- 
ing much dearer and greenifti. A League down the 
Rhofne we landed at Valence, a poor City and Univer- 
'fity, fituated on the left Side of the River : Afterwards 
we went by the Vivaretz and Severnies, and pafted by 
Montlimer on the left Hand, and Viviers on the right, 
both walled, though mean Places, and at fourteen 
Leagues from la Faurie lodged at Eourga, a walled 
Town on the right Side of the River. Many Peages 
and Tolls paid by the Boatmen as we came along, 
^d. After two Leagues we came to Pont S. Efprit, a 
ftately Scqne Bridge, with eighteen great Arches, and 
four little ones ; between every Arch is a Window. R 
is curioufly paved with fquare Stones,' a Hand broad, 
two Coaches can go abreaft on it, it is not made ftraic, 
but bending out againft the Scream. The Town of 
S. Efprit on the right Hand is wailed ; a League fur- 
ther we landed at a Peage or Toll-Place belonging to. 
Orange, (we might have landed a League nSre” to 
Orange) where we gave thirty five Sols a piece for a 
Horle to carry our Things thither. We walked about 
two Leagues in a level and fruitful Country to Orange ■ 
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