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before it was made use of by the Cossacks as a stable, was elegantly embellished. Thegrand altar, a gilt dome supported by fourmarble pillars, has a good effect; and thechapel behind it, dedicated to the tutelarsaint, possesses also an altar-piece of consi-derable merit, a bas-relief in white marble.The town has suffered dreadfully; the in-habitants having been plundered by threedifferent armies, were left quite destitute,and literally starving. From this scene ofwretchedness I followed the verdant banksof the Yonne , having on either side of me arange of hills covered with vineyards, as faras Joigny , a small town situated upon thebanks of the river, which I crossed by ahandsome stone bridge of seven arches.Above is an impending mountain, fromwhence comes the wine called Boane. Thevineyards through which 1 passed in thisday’s walk were filled with women and chil-dren putting down the stakes. The scar-city of men, they told me, had increased therate of wages to 30 sous a day, 13d. English .The vines looked well and thriving, and didnot appear to have been much injured by