Archaeological Notes Made During a Tour in Belgium, Western Germany, and France

I BEG leave to offer to the members of the Archaeological Institute the following memoranda, chiefly relative to pregothic art, made in the autumn of 1860, in Belgium, Western Germany, and the north-east of France.They may be considered as supplemental to my Archseological Notes made in Denmark, Prussia, and Holland, already published in the Journal of the Institute. 1 In the first place it may be mentioned, as a circumstance proving the great degree of interest taken at the present day in archseological matters, that, in almost all the cities and towns visited in my journey, the cathedrals and principal churches, the museums and hotels de ville, are at the present time undergoing, or have recently undergone, extensive renovations.The east end of the Cathedral of St. Gudule, the Hotel de Ville and the Museum at Brussels, the Cathedral at Bruges, the Church of St. Jacques and the Bishop's Palace at Liege, the eastern part of the Cathedral at Aix-la-Chapelle, the western choir of the Cathedral at Mayence and the Museum at that city, the Cathedrals at Strasburg, Metz, and Treves, the Basilica at the latter city, the choir of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and the nave of the Abbey Church of St. Germain des Pres, Paris, with numerous buildings of minor importance, may be mentioned as affording instances of this zeal for restoration.How far, however, much that has already been done, and is now in progress, is in the right direction, I will not attempt to determine

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