Conveyances.-Railway trains to Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne; to Liége, Tirlemont, Louvain, Malines, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend, see Bradshaw's Continental Guide. A loop line to Aixla-Chapelle, via Welkenraedt, runs off at Dolhain.

[The only interesting point on this line is at Montzen-Moresnet, near which is the neutral territory, about 3 square miles, of Moresnet, with 2,000 population, employed mainly in zinc mining. It is governed by a burgomaster and ten councillors, and possesses a standing army and policeforce of one gendarme.]

Dolhain (Station).-Passengers are sometimes required to alight here, that it may be ascertained that the carriage contains no small luggage. This once flourishing town, ruined by Louis XIV., is overlooked by Limburg Castle.

Herbesthal (Station). Here all luggage is examined which has not previously been declared for transit. The railway is carried over a Bridge of seventeen arches, 120 ft. high in the centre, over the valley of the Guile (or Goehl), passing through two tunnels, the second of which is 2,220 ft. long, pierced through a sand hill.

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (Station)-in German, Hotels:

Aachen.

Hotel du Grand Monarque. First-rate in every respect, a splendid establishment admirably conducted, large airy rooms.

Hotel Nuellens: First-rate, airy, and delightful situation, facing the Eliza Fountain, with its garden and its public promenade.

New Kaiserbad, Brunnen-Bains de l'Empereur, or Emperor's Bath-very superior establishment, supplied direct from the Mineral Springs.-The proprietor, Mr. Dremel, is also proprietor of the Hotel Grand Monarque and the Hotel Nuellens.

Dubigk's old established and excellent family Hotel and Hotel et Bains de la Rose, opposite the Kursaal, belonging now to J. Henrion, new proprietor.

Hotel zur Kaiserlichen Krone (Imperial Crown Hotel).-34 and 36, Alexander Street. Close to

the Kurhaus.

Hotel du Dragon d'Or, close to the Kursaal and principal Bath Houses; prices reasonable.

Hoyer's Union Hotel, close to the railway sta tion. Recommended for its cleanliness.

Hotel du Nord, opposite Rhenish railway station. Grand Hotel Kaiserhof.-First-class Hotel, very well and conveniently situated, 4, Hochstrasse.

Belle Vue; King of Spain; Elephant; Hotel Graaf. The Bath Hotels at the 8 springs belonging to the city are open all the year. Population, (1883) 102,400.

Resident

English Church, in Anna Strasse. Physicians, who speak English. Newspapers at Mayer's Library. Cabs.-The drive, one person, without luggage, 50 pf. Tariff inside. Luggage above 10 lbs.,

30 pf. each article. For two persons, 1 mile, 30 pf. Post and Telegraph Office.-No. 23, Jakobstrasse. Tramways through several of the principal streets to Burtscheid.

At Herbesthal, the first Prussian station, the train stops 10 minutes for the usual customhouse formalities.

Historically, Aachen, as the Germans call it, or Aix-la-Chapelle, as it is usually called (following the French way) from its warm springs (aquæ), is associated with the grandeur and the celebrity of Charlemagne, who died there. The emperors of Germany were formerly crowned within its walls, and its citizens possessed, during the middle ages, many important privileges and immunities. At the Reformation, the city was the scene of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, until the latter were compelled to emigrate to other countries; and as they were principally the most wealthy and influential merchants, their emigration proved highly prejudicial to the prosperity of the town, which declined for centuries. Latterly it has acquired an adventitious importance in history, from its having had European Congresses held within its walls, viz., in 1668, 1748 and 1818. This invested it with a temporary dignity, emanating, as it were, in a graceful act of filial piety from the sovereigns of modern Europe towards the favourite city of Charlemagne. Of ten Gates, the MarschierThor and Pont-Thor, are parts of the old fortifications, dating from the fourteenth century.

Commercially, Aix-la-Chapelle was renowned in former ages for the excellency of its woollen cloths, and even at the present day, the manufacturers of Aix are enabled to produce, from some remarkable properties in the mineral waters of the town, a peculiar light blue cloth, the dye of which wears to the last, and of which they export a great quantity to North and South America. There are

sational papers. There are also card and billiard tables, merely for amusement and pastime.

Musical and other Entertainments. Concerts are given from time to time in the saloons of the Kurhaus. Performances of instrumental and

sition limestone stone is visible, containing very peculiar petrifactions, viz., species of Calamopora, Cyathophyllum, and Terebratula, among others. Frankenburg, a restored stronghold of the middle part of the seventeenth century, said to have been a

amateurs of the town. These are-the Union for instrumental music; the Liedertafel (vocal music); the Concordia Union (vocal harmony). Every day from 7 to 8 a.m. and from 12 to 1 p.m. a band plays at the Elisenbrunnen; and from 3 to 4 30 p.m. in the garden of the Kurhaus. The military band plays on Sunday, from 12 to 1 o'clock p.m., before the Stadttheater. Operas, tragedies, and comedies, are given by turns on four days of the week, at the playhouse. A dress ball takes place once a week in the saloons of the Kurhaus.

Public Institutions. In addition to the Polytechnic, with about 400 students, Aix-la-Chapelle has a higher burgher school, a ladies' seminary and boarding-school, St. Leonard's, besides several private schools for both sexes. An establishment for gymnastic exercises and tilting, and a swimming school, have been added. A most important philanthropic institution is the poor and orphan house, under the guidance of a charitable sisterhood. Besides this establishment there is the handsome Mariahilf Hospital, with fine grounds (free), and an institution for the deaf and dumb.

Promenades and Points of Excursion into the Country. The Lousberg Belvedere presents a delightful point of view over the surrounding landscape, studded with country seats and villas. It is laid out like a garden, with shrubs and shady trees. The hill itself is a formation of chalk, and celebrated for its treasures in conchites, shells, and vegetable petrifactions. Opposite to the Lousberg lies a secondary hill, the Salvatorberg, with a pilgrimage chapel on its knoll. chapel was founded by Louis the Meek. The Isargarten and the Zoological garden are also agreeable resorts. At the suburb of Burtscheid, or Borcette, are hot springs ranging from 140° to 162° Fahrenheit, forming a boiling, bubbling Brook in the middle of one of the streets; and an ancient Abbey. It is here that the Devonian tran

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it, into which, the legend tells us, Queen Fastrada's ring was thrown. Departing from Borcette, the way leads to it by the Warmeweier along the Pockenpützchen (smallpox-puddle), through a picturesque rocky cleft. At a short distance eastward lies Trimborn, adjoining to which is a delightful little wood, containing an artificial ruin, constructed from the remains of a chapel of Charlemagne, and a sarcophagus. Scheenforst, the ruins of a stronghold of the thirteenth century, lies eastward, not far from the Frankenburg.

Its neighbourhood abounds in wild flowers and plants, amongst which are to be found the Platanthera bifolia and Chlorantha, the Orchis cortopnora, Gymnadenia viridis, and Conopsea, the Arnica montana, Parnasia palustris, Limosella aquatica, and many others. Malaten (very likely a later corruption from the French "malades "), a mile and a half westward from Aix, has the ruins of an infirmary and chapel, of the dawn of the thirteenth century. At this spot is the Quirinus spring. Septfontaines, about 2 miles, in the same direction; where Seven springs are observed issuing out of the base of a barren hill of calcareous mar]. Flowing through a highly romantic country, the springs give birth to the Wildbach (mad stream). The summit of this rocky hill affords a picturesque view.

In its near vicinity lies Vetschau, a very interesting village for geologists. Here the Maestricht stratum, containing a variety of petrifactions, is met with. Dr. Debey's collection includes many fossil plants from the hills. A pleasant way leads from Vetschau to Laurensberg. The village church is situated on the top of the grass-grown knoll, from whence, under spreading linden trees, a most delightful view of the town of Aix is beheld. From thence the carriage road leads back to Aix across the Wildbach. Kaisersruhe, about 2 miles northward of the town. Its vast and delightful gardens, its nurseries, hothouses, and its beautiful perspectives are very attracting. Bordering