_Skirt the church by following the Rue St. Germain to the_ PLACE DU MARCHÉ DE LANSELLES (_curious old houses_). _Cross the Square diagonally on the right, then take the Rue des Vergeaux._ _In this street (Nos. 57-59--K on detailed plan) is the_ =Maison du Sagittaire= (_Archers' House_), so called on account of two small figures of archers carved at the top of the keystones of the arcaded vaults on the ground-floor. Pure Renaissance in style and dating from 1593, it is the finest and best preserved house in the old town (_photo opposite_). [Illustration: HOUSE OF THE "SAGITTAIRE" _Rue des Vergeaux nos. 57-59._] The ground-floor comprises two broken-arch arcades, each of whose tympanums is ornamented with two semi-recumbent figures of women. A frieze ornamented with medallions of Roman warriors extends between the ground-floor and first-floor. Five magnificent lions' muzzles appear between Renaissance motifs in this frieze. [Illustration: PLACE DES HUCHERS ABOUT 1820. (_drawing by the Brothers Duthoit_).] OLD AMIENS _Return to the Place du Marché de Lanselles and take the Rue St. Martin, which is at the right-hand corner._ There are two =fine façades= in this street, one Louis XV. at No. 7, and the other Louis XVI. at No. 18. A shell caused rather serious damage to the left-hand window on the first floor of the former. _At the end of the Rue St. Martin take on the left the Rue Flatters, which continues the Rue du Bloc. Leave the latter, taking on the right the Rue des Rinchevaux which leads to the_ Place des Huchers. (=Fine view= of old houses and cathedral--_photo below_). [Illustration: PLACE DES HUCHERS.] [Illustration: HOCQUET CANAL] _To the right of the Square take the Rue du Pont-Piperesse visible in the photo, p. 49_, then on the left, _the Rue des Gantiers and the Rue Hocquet. At the intersection of the latter with the Rue de Metz-l'Evéque take a few steps to the right in the last-named street, to get a_ =view= _of the picturesque_ Canal du Hocquet (_photo above_). _Continue along the Rue du Hocquet and its continuation (Rue de la Barette). At the end of this street, turn to the left, cross the bridge over the Somme and go up the Boulevard de Beauvillé for several hundred yards, to get_ a pretty =view= of the town _on the left_ (_photo below_). [Illustration: PANORAMA OF AMIENS (_as seen from the Boulevard Beauvillé_).] [Illustration: THE "HORTILLONNAGES" (KITCHEN-GARDENS).] The "Hortillonnages" In the foreground of the above photo is a "Hortillonage." This is the local name for the tiny islets in the vicinity, whose rich black soil is generally cultivated as kitchen-gardens by men and women called "hortillons" or "hortillonnes." These gardens are intersected by innumerable small canals fed by the Rivers Somme and Avre. The most important "hortillonnages" are at the east end of the town. Visiting is only possible in the long flat-bottomed boats with turned-up ends seen in the photo above.