A Pilgrimage to Treves, Through the Valley of the Meuse And the Forest of ...
A Pilgrimage to Treves, Through the Valley of the Meuse And the Forest of ...
Charles Edward Anthon
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We landed at Maestricht just above the fine stone bridge, built in 1683, which connects the city with the suburb of Wyck, on the opposite side of the river. This city, ond of the most strongly fortified places in Europe, still belongs to Holland. Being garrisoned by Dutch troops at the time of the Belgian Revolution, its population did not join the movement, and it was definitively assigned to Holland by the Treaty of London in 1831, which fixed the limits of the two kingdoms. The hill called S...t. Pietersberg, or Montague St. Pierre, rises from the water's edge about a mile to the north of the town. It is chiefly composed of calcareous stone of a light-brown colour, in which organic remains are constantly met with. This stone is so extremely soft as to crumble between the fingers, and attracts moisture on exposure to the atmosphere, so that it is not well-adapted for building; it is used, nevertheless, for thb purpose, and the quarries having been worked for a long series of ages, the interior of the mountain has been converted into a labyrinth of passages, sup- posed to extend beneath a surface of ground six leagues in length by two in width; and so nu- merous and perplexing are they, that it would be madness to enter them vrithout an experienced guide.
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