want of conductors." I possess a fragment of the lead of the roof, as
it was collected after a state of _fusion_--and sent over to me
by some friend at Rouen. The fusion has caused portions of the lead to
assume a variety of fantastic shapes--not _altogether_ unlike a
gothic building.]

[50] Let me add that the whole length of the cathedral is about four
hundred and forty feet; and the transept about one hundred and
seventy-five; English measure. The height of the nave is about ninety,
and of the lantern one hundred and sixty-eight feet, English. The
length of the nave is two hundred and twenty-eight feet.

[51] He died in 1531. Both the ancient and yet existing inscriptions are
inserted by Gilbert, from Pommeraye and Farin; and formerly there was
seen, in the middle of the monument, the figure of the Seneschal
habited as a Count, with all the insignia of his dignity. But this did
not outlive the Revolution.

[52] It must be admitted that Diana, when she caused the verses

_Indivulsa tibi quondam et fidissima conjux
Vt fuit in thalamo, sic erit in tumulo_.

to be engraved upon the tomb of the Seneschal, might well have "moved
the bile" of the pious Benedictine Pommeraye, and have excited the
taunting of Ducarel, when they thought upon her subsequent connexion,
in the character of mistress, with Henry the Second of France. Henry
however endeavoured to compensate for his indiscretions by the pomp
and splendor of his processions. Rouen, so celebrated of old for the
entries of Kings and Nobles, seems to have been in a perfect blaze of