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THE NOTE-BOOKS OF RICHARD SYMONDS 231
sides of the mountaynes full of wood....The Embassaders armes
of Venice and other Countryes are in the Inn or post howse1....
It raynes almost alwayes on the top of the Mountaynes.
Thursday morning, at seven o' the clock, wee sett out and got
to our dining place by twelve, being four leagues and somewhat
more. This passage was all on the sides of the Rocks, by a
Rapid shallow strong roring River, called Lizere °, which goes by
Grenoble, The mountaynes yet loftyer then the former, and a
league in length; they seeme to bee ready to fall on our heads.
Many great stones were lying below. This River eates up the
Valley3, yet there are Villages and small Churches on the sides of
the Hills, the Sun shone from the early morning, yet came not
on the South side of the way till about ten or eleven o' the Clock.
Snow in some places on the top.
Wee dyned at La Chambre4. Neare this is remayning a
Ruyned old Castle, fortifyd, And a Wall afore wee caime to this
towne from the Rock to the River to stop the passage, but not
now of use. This journey I saw many of the villagers with great
throats5, especially the women; few children have it. Our Host
here had a little gullet. I askt him the reason, and some said
twas the Snow water. He laught at that, and said it was the Ayre;
he never dranke any Water in his life. Here Plums were hangd up
by the stalks in strings, one not touching the other, thirty or forty
in a string, which last and eat well at a year or two old. This is
the middle of our Journey. The language here is chiefly French,
but bad enoughWater they call De Leager; depessa for
depesche, make hast; for ouy they say, Way, woy.
After dinner by the River side, sometimes over bridges, some
of large Arches. At a league end, wee came to the Bishoprick of
St. Jean de Morian7, a pretty bourg or Ville till wee entred it, but
within so close and stinking, being that the sun enters not by
reason of the height of the howses and broad Eves. Here is but
one Church and One Convent of Capucins and two or three other
1 Mundy "lay att the signe of the Ramme" at Aiguebelle. See p. 116.
2 Read L'Izere. Symonds mistook the Arc for the Isere. See note 2
on p. 230.
3 See p. 115.
4 Mundy does not seem to have stopped at this usual halting-place.
5 Goitre. See p. 117.
6 See p. 114 f. 7 See p. 115 f.
sides of the mountaynes full of wood....The Embassaders armes
of Venice and other Countryes are in the Inn or post howse1....
It raynes almost alwayes on the top of the Mountaynes.
Thursday morning, at seven o' the clock, wee sett out and got
to our dining place by twelve, being four leagues and somewhat
more. This passage was all on the sides of the Rocks, by a
Rapid shallow strong roring River, called Lizere °, which goes by
Grenoble, The mountaynes yet loftyer then the former, and a
league in length; they seeme to bee ready to fall on our heads.
Many great stones were lying below. This River eates up the
Valley3, yet there are Villages and small Churches on the sides of
the Hills, the Sun shone from the early morning, yet came not
on the South side of the way till about ten or eleven o' the Clock.
Snow in some places on the top.
Wee dyned at La Chambre4. Neare this is remayning a
Ruyned old Castle, fortifyd, And a Wall afore wee caime to this
towne from the Rock to the River to stop the passage, but not
now of use. This journey I saw many of the villagers with great
throats5, especially the women; few children have it. Our Host
here had a little gullet. I askt him the reason, and some said
twas the Snow water. He laught at that, and said it was the Ayre;
he never dranke any Water in his life. Here Plums were hangd up
by the stalks in strings, one not touching the other, thirty or forty
in a string, which last and eat well at a year or two old. This is
the middle of our Journey. The language here is chiefly French,
but bad enoughWater they call De Leager; depessa for
depesche, make hast; for ouy they say, Way, woy.
After dinner by the River side, sometimes over bridges, some
of large Arches. At a league end, wee came to the Bishoprick of
St. Jean de Morian7, a pretty bourg or Ville till wee entred it, but
within so close and stinking, being that the sun enters not by
reason of the height of the howses and broad Eves. Here is but
one Church and One Convent of Capucins and two or three other
1 Mundy "lay att the signe of the Ramme" at Aiguebelle. See p. 116.
2 Read L'Izere. Symonds mistook the Arc for the Isere. See note 2
on p. 230.
3 See p. 115.
4 Mundy does not seem to have stopped at this usual halting-place.
5 Goitre. See p. 117.
6 See p. 114 f. 7 See p. 115 f.