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LETTER V.

Chamberry, Sept. 27th, at Night.

We have been walking about this town all the morning. Here are no antiquities to be seen, nor any thing curious. Abbé Richard, vol. I p. 8, has said more in favour of the architecture of the Church, than we think it deserves. They shew with great veneration a little chapel, in which the Sainte Suaire was formerly deposited: since removed to Turin. Upon the wall hangs a long lift of relics, consisting of above sixty different articles; such as St. John's reed, that was shaken by the wind in the desart, two nails of the real cross; fragments of some of the apostles' garments. But, unfortunately for the devots at Chamberry, all these precious realities have been removed to Turin, and the lift only remains. – The old Castle was deemed impregnable in bow and arrow time, but is now commanded on every side. Two thousand people were lodged within its walls in 1736 or 1737, at the marriage of the present King of Sardinia with Madame of Lorrain. – The palace is in ruins. There are a few small pictures in the church of the Jacobins, which are tolerably well executed. The public walk admired by Lalande does not answer his description. Here are several fountains well supplied with excellent water. The houses make a beggarly appearance, on the outside particularly, as the windows are of paper, and fre-