[87] Lieutenant Hall has well described it.  I did not see his description
    till more than a twelvemonth after my own had been written.  A part may
    be worth extracting....  “The principal object of attraction is the
    CHURCH, the gothic spire of which is encircled by fillets of roses,
    beautifully carved in stone, and continued to the very summit of the
    steeple.  The principal portal too is sculptured with no less richness
    and delicacy than that of St. Maclou at Rouen.  Its interior length is
    about 250 feet by 72 of width.  The central aisle [nave] is flanked on
    either side by ten massive circular columns, the capitals of which
    represent vine leaves and other decorations, more fanciful, and not
    less rich, than the Corinthian acanthus....  In one of the chapels
    there is a rude monumental effigy of the original architect of this
    church.  It consists of a small skeleton, drawn in black lines, against
    a tablet in the wall:  a mason’s level and trowel, with the plan of a
    building, are beside it, and an inscription in gothic characters,
    relating that the architect endowed the church he had built with
    certain lands, and died Anno 1484.” Travels in France, p. 47,
    1819, 8vo.  I take this to be GUILLAUME TELLIER—­mentioned above:  but
    in regard to the lands with which Tellier endowed the church, the
    inscription says nothing.  LICQUET.

[88] Small as may be this village, and insignificant as may be its aspect,
    it is one of the most important places, with respect to navigation, in
    the whole course of the river Seine.  Seven years ago there were not
    fewer than four-score pilots settled here, by order of government,
    for the purpose of guarding against accidents which arise from a want
    of knowledge of the navigation of the river.  In time of peace this
    number would necessarily be increased.  In the year 1789 there were
    upwards of 250 English vessels which passed it—­averaging, in the
    whole, 19,000 tons.  It is from Quillebeuf to Havre that the
    accidents arise.  The author of a pompous, but very instructive memoir,
    “sur la Topographie et la Statistique de la Ville de Quillebeuf et de
    l’embouchure de la Seine, ayant pour objet-principal la navigation et
    la peche,” (published in the Transactions of the Rouen Society for
    the year 1812, and from which the foregoing information has been
    obtained) mentions three or four wrecks which have taken place in
    the immediate vicinity of Quillebeuf:  and it should seem that a calm
    is, of all things, the most fatal.  The currents are strong, and the
    vessel is left to the mercy of the tides in consequence.  There are
    also rocks and sand banks in abundance.  Among the wrecks, was one, in