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i^o A Journey srom Colon in Germany to London.
7 nf s o About a quarter of a Mile out of the Town we went into the great
o tone. Qyarry of Stone, which is one of the noblest sure in the World. Be-
tween Padda and Vicenza I had formerly seen the famous Cave of Cu-
floza, or Cubola, said to be above Five hundred Fathoms in breadth, and
Seven hundred in length, but this doth far surpass it : the Roof is very
high and {lately in most places, the Pillars not to be numbred,all very
large ; we palled two miles under ground amongst them : No Laby-
rinth can be contrived more intricate, and yet all parts are uniform.
The Floor all in a level, and the Rcof\w most places of the same height,
- and so much hath that uniform rule, which I suppose was set to those
who first digged, and so hath successively been observed, added to the
beauty of this place, that there is scarce any thing more noble. It put
me in mind of the hundred Chambers of Nero, which he caused to Jfe
made under Ground in the Rocks at Baine. And the Water which we
met with in one place, made methink of Eero’s admirable Fiji:-pond,
built in the like manner within the Earth. We came out again near
to a Convent upon the Banks of the River, and returned by water to
Maeflreicht. j ,
The next day we parted Company. Mr. Newton, Mr. Ettrick, Mr.
Grove, Mr. Carlton, and Mr. Ndwcomb went for Aken and Colen ; Mr.
Bates and Mr. Dasson went up the River again to Liege, at which
place, slaying a day or two to find a convenience to pass to Brujsels,
we were nobly entertained at a Dinner with Venifon, Wild-boar, and
other Difhes, by that Worthy Person and Learned Mathematician
Franciflcus Sluflus, one of the great Canons of Liege, who also continued
his high Civilities to us to the last Minute we stayed in Lown.
Leaving Liege we soon came in sight of Longres, or Lungrorum o-
Twgrts. pidum, the molt ancient place in all these Countries. Qrtelius would
have it to be called of old Atuatuca : It was a strong hold before the
coming of Julius Caefar into Gaul, and was afterwards made a Roman
Station, and in process of time became so great, that Attila the Hun de-
slroyed an hundred Churches in it, it being at that time a Bifhops See,
which in the year 498 St. Servafius removed unto Maeflreicht. Many
old Coins and Antiquities are still found here ; and part of an old Chap-
pel, said to be built by St. Mat emus, Disciple to St. Peter, is still re-
maining. When the King of France made his great inroad into the
Low-Countries, 1671. he borrowed this Town of the Elector of Cologne,
and then palled on to Mafeick, where crosting the Country to the
Rhine, by the Tides of these great Rivers, Rhine and Maes, he made
that notable Incurfion, and quitted not Longres till he had taken Mae-
flreicht the year following. We dined this day at Bcrchloe, and lodg-
ed at St. Lruyn, or St. Lruden, a handsome little Lown, so called from a
Church and Abbey herein dedicated to that Saint.
The next day we dined at Lienen, or Filmont, on the little River
Geet, once one os the chief Towns in Brabant, but long since decay-
ed. In these Plain Countries, in many places we saw lmall Hills, or
Sepulchral Eminences of the Ground: And near unto the Walls of Lie-
nen, are three very remarkable ones, said to be the Lombs of great Com-
manders. In the Evening we came to Lovain.
Lovain. Lovain is the chief City of that quarter of Brabant, which compre¬
hended! Arfchot, Halen, and Judoigne ; an ancient and large City,
pleasantly seated upon the River Dele ; it is of great Circuit, and the
compass
7 nf s o About a quarter of a Mile out of the Town we went into the great
o tone. Qyarry of Stone, which is one of the noblest sure in the World. Be-
tween Padda and Vicenza I had formerly seen the famous Cave of Cu-
floza, or Cubola, said to be above Five hundred Fathoms in breadth, and
Seven hundred in length, but this doth far surpass it : the Roof is very
high and {lately in most places, the Pillars not to be numbred,all very
large ; we palled two miles under ground amongst them : No Laby-
rinth can be contrived more intricate, and yet all parts are uniform.
The Floor all in a level, and the Rcof\w most places of the same height,
- and so much hath that uniform rule, which I suppose was set to those
who first digged, and so hath successively been observed, added to the
beauty of this place, that there is scarce any thing more noble. It put
me in mind of the hundred Chambers of Nero, which he caused to Jfe
made under Ground in the Rocks at Baine. And the Water which we
met with in one place, made methink of Eero’s admirable Fiji:-pond,
built in the like manner within the Earth. We came out again near
to a Convent upon the Banks of the River, and returned by water to
Maeflreicht. j ,
The next day we parted Company. Mr. Newton, Mr. Ettrick, Mr.
Grove, Mr. Carlton, and Mr. Ndwcomb went for Aken and Colen ; Mr.
Bates and Mr. Dasson went up the River again to Liege, at which
place, slaying a day or two to find a convenience to pass to Brujsels,
we were nobly entertained at a Dinner with Venifon, Wild-boar, and
other Difhes, by that Worthy Person and Learned Mathematician
Franciflcus Sluflus, one of the great Canons of Liege, who also continued
his high Civilities to us to the last Minute we stayed in Lown.
Leaving Liege we soon came in sight of Longres, or Lungrorum o-
Twgrts. pidum, the molt ancient place in all these Countries. Qrtelius would
have it to be called of old Atuatuca : It was a strong hold before the
coming of Julius Caefar into Gaul, and was afterwards made a Roman
Station, and in process of time became so great, that Attila the Hun de-
slroyed an hundred Churches in it, it being at that time a Bifhops See,
which in the year 498 St. Servafius removed unto Maeflreicht. Many
old Coins and Antiquities are still found here ; and part of an old Chap-
pel, said to be built by St. Mat emus, Disciple to St. Peter, is still re-
maining. When the King of France made his great inroad into the
Low-Countries, 1671. he borrowed this Town of the Elector of Cologne,
and then palled on to Mafeick, where crosting the Country to the
Rhine, by the Tides of these great Rivers, Rhine and Maes, he made
that notable Incurfion, and quitted not Longres till he had taken Mae-
flreicht the year following. We dined this day at Bcrchloe, and lodg-
ed at St. Lruyn, or St. Lruden, a handsome little Lown, so called from a
Church and Abbey herein dedicated to that Saint.
The next day we dined at Lienen, or Filmont, on the little River
Geet, once one os the chief Towns in Brabant, but long since decay-
ed. In these Plain Countries, in many places we saw lmall Hills, or
Sepulchral Eminences of the Ground: And near unto the Walls of Lie-
nen, are three very remarkable ones, said to be the Lombs of great Com-
manders. In the Evening we came to Lovain.
Lovain. Lovain is the chief City of that quarter of Brabant, which compre¬
hended! Arfchot, Halen, and Judoigne ; an ancient and large City,
pleasantly seated upon the River Dele ; it is of great Circuit, and the
compass