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THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN.
The approach to Rouen is indeed magnificent. I speak of the immediate approach; after you reach the top of a considerable rise, and are stopped by the barriers, you then look down a straight, broad, and strongly paved road, lined with a double row of trees on each side. As the foliage was not thickly set, we could discern, through the delicately clothed branches the tapering spire of the Cathedral and the more picturesque tower of the Abbaye St. Ouen -- with hanging gardens and white houses to the left -- covering a richly cultivated ridge of hills, which sink as it were into the _Boulevards_ and which is called the _Faubourg Cauchoise_.