Chap. IV . 
through France. 
fol. anguftijfimus, a kind of Milk- wort ; the Melifophil- 
him or wild Baum ; the Beilis Carulca Monfpeh though 
growing alfo in other Parts of France •, blue Dafies. In 
the Woods we obferved the feveral Species of Orchis^ 
Spurges of all Kinds, but efpecially the Fithymalus Cu- 
prijficus. 
1 6. From Brejle we foon came to Lyons^ the largeft 
City of France next to Baris., feated at the Confluence 
of the Soan and the Rhofne ; the lafl: runs here with a 
fwift Current, and over the firfl they keep a Chain ot 
Boats link’d together, to prevent Barks from paflang 
by without paying Cuftom. Its Situation was anci- 
ently, as well as now, at the Conflux of thele two Ri- 
vers, as appears from ' a PalTage in Seneca •, and that 
its Name was Lugdunum among the Romans, is evi- 
dent from the following Infcription found at Gaetd in 
Italy. 
L, Minutius 2 L. Fil. L. N. L. pro N. Plancus 
Ccjf. Cenf. Imper. iter VII. Vir Epulon : 
Friumph. ex Rhetis adem Saturni fecit de manubiis 
agros divijit in Italia Beneveriti, in Gallia colonias 
deduxit. LUGDUNUM Rauracum. 
Part of the City is built on the Hills of Tornir and 
St. Sebajtian, the reft along the Banks of the Rivers ; 
the Market-place is handfome, and the Town-houfe 
(lately built) a fine Strudure. In the Carmelites Church 
is an Altar of Agate and Lapis Lazuli ; the Capuchins 
have all the pretended Miracles of their Saint painted 
on the Walls of the Cloyfter ; among which you fee 
one where he pays his Apothecary with Prayers inftead 
of Money. 
The Church of St. John is their Cathedral, the Chap- 
ter compofed of Gentlemen of the beft Families, and 
formerly boafted of having had therein feveral Kings 
and Princes : They compute, that in the thirteenth 
Century they had, at the fame Time, one Son of an 
Emperor, nine Sons of Kings, fourteen Dukes Sons, 
thirty of Counts, and twenty of Barons ; there belong 
no lefs than three Churches to this Chapter, viz. that 
of Sr. John before-mentioned, of St. Stephen, and of 
the Holy Crofs ; in the firft is to be feen the Clock fo 
much celebrated for the Variety of its Motions and Me- 
chanifm. The Huguenots, during the CivilWars, knock’d 
down many of the Heads of the Saints that were pla- 
ced to adorn the Front of this Church. Their Theatres 
z.ndOpera*s are not inferior here to thofe of Paris-, 
and the Jefuits College upon the Rhofne is the finett 
Struefture in the whole City, being a regular Quadrangle 
curioufly painted in Frefco, which is fomewhat defaced 
on the Eaft Side, where the Weft Winds from the Moun- 
tains bear upon it : I found them to perform their publick 
Exercifes much after the fame Manner as they do at Pa- 
ris. Their Chapel has a fine Altar-piece of Lapis Lazuli, 
and an excellent Piece of Painting by Blanchard, who 
died while we were there. The Apartment for their 
Library is fpacious and handfome, but the Books not 
extraordinary, and at that Time were all diforder’d by 
reafon of a late Fire that broke out in the Collecre • 
they have, however, fome Manufcripts of the Bible’ 
but not very old ; and Plinyh Natural Hijlory and Del 
cades finely printed on Vellum about two hundred Years 
ago, all the capital Letters in Miniature, gilt and em 
behflied as we fee the old Mafs-books. The moft va 
luable Piece of the whole Library is a Manufcript of the 
fame Author’s Natural Hijlory, four or five hundred 
Years old ; many obfolete Words, fuch as illod,iocondif- 
Jimo,^ &c. demonftrate it to be a Piece of a confiderable 
Antiquity. 
The Abbey of Daifne, juft without the Town, is an 
ancient Piece of Architedure, with very good Molaick 
Work, the Pidure of God the Father (excellently done) 
being almoft defaced by Age. This Abbey is the fame 
Place w'here Caligula had ereded his Athenaeum for the 
Improvement of the Greek and Tongues, f men- 
tioned by Suetonius) Rewards and Punirtiments beina 
propofed to fuch as did either well or ill j to this Ju- 
venal alludes, 
Palleat ut nudis prefit qui calcihus anmeni, 
Aut Lugdunenfem Rhetor diPturUs ad aram. 
Here they fhew you the fo much celebrated Buckfc'f 
of Scipio, which, upon due Enquiry, is fo’ far, from be-" 
ing his Buckler, that it is rather a Bafin or Difli well 
gilt and embofs’d for, according to the ancient Form 
of Armoury, it is too unweildy, and its Concavity 
within no Way adapted to the Bending of tile Arm and 
covering the Body. Add tcf this, that all Bucklers both 
ancient and modern, have their Ornaments of Painting 
or Gilding on the Outfide, arid not within the Con- 
cavity ; and I remember, that talking with M. Patin, a 
great Antiquary of Padua, upon this Subjed, he was of 
the fame Opinion ; it being crack’d, it was cramp’d 
on the Back with fmall Iron Bars. They have here a 
more aurhentick Piece of Antiquity, I mean the Speech 
of Claudius, who was born here ; it is to be feen in 
the Front- walk of the Town-houfe, and the Word illtid 
for illud, and the old Roman Pundation betwixt evefy 
Word, fufficiendy flievvs its Antiquity. They have alfo 
fome Obclifks, but not fo ancient as thofe at Rome ; 
that near the Jacobins Church is infcribed O WO. 
70 ) SecS IravTocroT/ipiav TrctpcacLnrF hpot>. 
Their Sc. Peter’s Nunnery is a fine F’oundationj and 
the parochial Church of St. Niege, adorn’d with feveral 
fine Pieces of Painting by le Brun. 
17 . The Prifon of the City is built upon a Rock, 
unto whi h they have cut out a Way with vaft Charge 
and Difficulty ; but it is probable that this was rather 
done to make a Way into the Town by the Wacer- 
fidc, it extending, perhaps, before out into the River, 
which now runs juft by the Street that lies under the 
Rock. This Place being feated on the Confines of 
Italy, v/as orie of the beft Magaziries of the Romans iii 
Gaul foriie of the greateft Men of Rorne have honour’d 
it either by their Birth or Abode, befides the Emperors 
Claudius, Germanicus, Geta, Caracalla and here are ftili 
to be feen fome Remnants of the Roman Antiquities, 
of their Baths, Aquaduds, and Part of an Amphithe- 
atre. At prefent the King’s Treafury for that Parc of 
France is kept here, and another called the Court of 
Commerce. Two General Councils have been held at 
Lyons in 1245, under Innocent VI. and in 1274, by 
Gregory XI j befides which, they had feveral Synods 
here long before, as that affembled by Sc. Irenaus in 
197, and another in the Time of St. Cyprian, under 
Faujimus Biffiop of Lyons it was upon this Occafion Sfi, 
Cyprian writ chat Letter to the Pope, which begins 
thus, Fauftinus Collega nojier Lugduni confijiens, &c. la 
my Walks about the Carmelites Church- walls i obferved 
the Fumaria major fcandens, the large Fumitory the 
Mujcatellina fol. fumaria bulbofc J. B. or the Radix cava 
minima, Ger. the Mujkwood Crowfoot Beilis major, the 
Enneaphyllon of Pliny, or the great bastard Hellebore •, 
the Hypericum vulg. C. B. St. John’s Wort. About the 
City grows alfo the Anchufa Lutea, a Kind of bajtafd 
Gromel with a yellow Flower. 
I was not a little furprized to fee fo fruitful a Soil as 
all the Country betwixt Lyons and Savoy (called Dau- 
phiny) almoft deftitute of Inhabitants, though well 
enough cultivated in many Places ; but upon Enquiry 
found, that this Part of the Country being allotted for 
Winter-quarters to the French Horfe, the Peafanrs ufed 
to come thither only in the Spring, to fow the Seed, 
and in the Summer to reap the Produd thereof, and fo 
retire into other Parts. This fertile Trad of Dau- 
phiny brought us to the utmoft Borders of France on 
that Side, viz. P ontebeauvofm, an obfcure Place feated 
upon an inconfiderable River called Gyer, which, how- 
ever, is the common Boundary here betwixt France and 
Savoy. The chiefeft Plants of Note I obferved in Dau- 
phiny v/ere, the Valeriana rubr. anguifol C. B. , the nar- 
row-leaf’d red Valeriany, the Radix Rodia or Rofewort 
in great Plenty ; Linaria fol. Bellidis a Kind of 
Toad-flax with a Daify Flower •, Imperatoria vulg. or the 
cofnmon JAajlerwort ; Parietaria cerulea queedam^ a Sore 
of blue Pellitory % the Cataname fol Cyani Delech. fl. Co- 
ronop. J. B. which Chabreiis would have the Sijamoidis 
minus Matth. a certain Graft with the Leaves of the 
Blubottles and Flowers of the Buckthorn Plantain. 
We 
