[ON THE ROAD BETWEEN CONCHES AND BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER] This is typical of the poplar-bordered roads of Normandy.
[THE CHATEAU GAILLARD FROM THE ROAD BY THE SEINE] The village of Le Petit Andely appears below the castle rock, and is partly hidden by the island. The chalk cliffs on the left often look like ruined walls.
[A TYPICAL REACH OF THE SEINE BETWEEN ROUEN AND LE PETIT ANDELY] On one side great chalk cliffs rise precipitously, and on the other are broad flat pastures.
[THE CHURCH AT GISORS, SEEN FROM THE WALLS OF THE NORMAN CASTLE]
[THE TOUR DE LA GROSSE HORLOGE, ROUEN] It is the Belfry of the City, and was commenced in 1389.
[THE CATHEDRAL AT ROUEN] Showing a peep of the Portail de la Calende, and some of the quaint houses of the oldest part of the City.
CHAPTER I
Some Features of Normandy
Very large ants, magpies in every meadow, and coffee-cups without handles, but of great girth, are some of the objects that soon become familiar to strangers who wander in that part of France which was at one time as much part of England as any of the counties of this island. The ants and the coffee-cups certainly give one a sense of being in a foreign land, but when one wanders through the fertile country among the thatched villages and farms that so forcibly remind one of Devonshire, one feels a friendliness in the landscapes that scarcely requires the stimulus of the kindly attitude of the peasants towards les anglais.