Chap. IV. 
SECTION iV. 
Travels through France y interfperfed with hiftorical, political and 
medical Obfervations, made with great Care and Circumfpeiiion, in 
two dilFerent Journeys through that Kingdom, the laft of which 
was compleated in the Year 1702, and the Whole reviled by the 
Author a little before his Death. 
By T)oEior John Northleigh, of the Royal College of Phyfciam. 
I. A jhort IntroduBion. B'he Author's 'Entrance htto the Kingdom ^ of France. The Places he pajfed 
through in his fourney to Paris. 2. A large and curious DefcripUon of that Ctty^ with an Account 
oj the principal Edifices and other Things remarkable y obferved therein by the Author. 2* A noery 
copious and circumfiantial Defcription of the TJniverftty Paris, and of the fever al Colleges of which it 
is compofed. 4. A Defcription oj fome of the principal Churches in this City j alfo of the Houfes be- 
longing to the Jefuits. 5. The Abbey of St. Germains defcribedy with fome Account of the Curiofities 
there. 6. The Palais, the Chappel of St. Louis, the Palace of^ Luxemburg and the Obfervatory de- 
fcribed. 7. An Account of the Bridges in Paris, with fome hiftorical Remarks. 8. The Place de St. 
Vidtoire, and the Triumphal Arch ereBed to the Honour of Lewis XIV. 9. An Account of the prin- 
cipal Gates of this City, 10. A Defcription of the French King's Country PalaceSy paiTicularlyEoww- 
tainbleau^ St. Germains, andyhxXi, \i. A more particular Defcription ^ Verlailles, and fome 
other Palaces not far from it. j2, A Defcription of the Monafiery of aS?. Dennis, where French 
Kings are interred. 13. The Author's fourney to the Sea-Coaft through Pontoife, Roan, Dieppe, 
Abbeville and Calais. 14. The Author’s fourney from Paris by Charrienton to the Banks of the Loire, 
with his Obfervations in his Paftage. 15. Nevers, Moulins, and other Places defcribedy with feme Ac- 
count of the Waters of Bourbon. 16. A Defcription of the City of Lyons, of the mo ft remarkable 
BuildingSy and other Curiofities there. 17. This SubjeB continued with an Account of the adjacent 
Country. 18. The Author’s Remarks on the French Government and Nation, 19. Some Obfervations 
upon the foregoing SeBion, 
j, 'f X7E are acquainted with very few Circumftances 
V V relating to the ingenious Gentleman, who 
was the Author of thefe Travels. He was bred at the 
Univerfity of Oxfordy as Mr, Wood informs us, and tra- 
veled through the greateft Part of EuropCy purely for 
the Sake of Improvement and Information. He cn- 
tred France from that Part of the Low Countries now 
under the the Dominion of the French Monarchs, ha- 
ving before paffed through the Territories of the Re- 
publick of the United ProvinceSy which he has alfo de- 
fcribed ; but confidering we have inferted Travels 
through that Country already, we fhall not fatigue the 
Reader with Repetitions, but give him at once our 
Author’s own Account of the Places he paffed through 
in his Way to Paris. 
The firft Place we came to in FrancCy properly 
fo call’d, (without its Con quells) was Peronne, for- 
merly a Frontier Town towards Camhrayy and well 
fortified after the old Way, being the firft on that Side 
in Picardy. Here the Cuftom-houfe Officers fearched 
us as ftridlly as if we had firft fet Foot into the French 
Territories, though we came out of the French Con- 
quefts, and had paid Duties there to the fame King. 
It is feated upon a Level on the River Somme, not un- 
like our Salisbury, but in Bignefs approaching near to 
Exeter, in that Part of Picardy called the Vermandois or 
Sans’terre ; the firft being the Situation of the ancient 
Veromandue ; St. ^uintins, which is not far off, being 
fuppofed to have been the Augufta Veromanduorum of 
Ccefar. 
From Peronne, paffing through the little Village of 
MarJlipOy we came to Roy, formerly a Town of Note, 
(as its Ruins fufficiently teftify) feated on the River 
Moreul in the Sans-terre , then taking our Way through 
the Village of Gourney, furnamed Sur le Arondehurg, in 
the Ifte of France, we, came to Pont firnam’d St. Maix- 
ence, upon the River Ojfe, having an old ftrong Wall, 
and a good Bridge that brings you to it crofs the Ri- 
ver. From hence travelling three Leagues further, we 
came to Senlis, a Biffiop’s See, Suffragan to that of 
Reims y fome would have it the Augujlomagus of Pto~ 
lomy. The Great Church, dedicated to the Holy Vir- 
gin, is fuppofed to have been built by the Englijh. The 
next Town betwixt this and Paris is the Louvre, feated 
in the Dukedom of Valois, once the Sirname of the Roy- 
al Family, before it was fwallovv’d up in the Houfe of 
Bourbon. Picardy has generally a pleafant and fertile 
Soil. 
2 . Thence we came to Paris, the Metropolis of 
France, which fome have compared with London for its 
Extent, Buildings, and Number of Inhabitants. As 
for its Circumference, the fame is'eafily difcover’d from 
off the Towers of their Notre Dame or Our Lady^s 
Church, to be much lefs than our’s, though it lies in a 
more circular Figure. The Houfes, it muft be con- 
fefs’d, look very handfome on the Outfide, being bulk 
with a fair white Free-ftone (found thereabouts) with 
handforhe Saffi-windows. 
The Number of its Inhabitants is, in my Opinion, 
beft guefs’d at, without any further Scrutiny, by the 
People you meet with in the Streets, efpecially on the 
Pontnsiif, the greateft Paffage in Paris, and that a very 
ftiort one, notwithftanding which, you ffiall very rarely 
fee near fo many People there, as you meet every 
where walking all along from Tower-hill to Wedminfier- 
Abbey : Add to this, that their By-Streets and Alleys 
are not near fo throng’d with People as ours in Lon- 
don y and if Trade is the main Thing that renders Ci- 
ties populous, (as we fee in thofe of Flolland) it is evi- 
dent that our Metropolis challenges the Preference upon 
that Account. What fome would alledge in Reference 
to the Number of Coaches in Paris is of no great Con- 
fequence, though I am apt to believe we may carry it 
even upon that Account. 
This fo much celebrated City is feated in a moft de- 
lightful Plain *, their Houfes are generally fix or feven 
Stories high : By common Computation Paris has be- 
twixt thirty and forty thoufand Houfes, and about feven 
hundred thoufand Souls, 
The 
