(4) Take the Rue St. Jacques, and go straight out to the =Porte d’ Ostende=, which forms an interesting picture. Cross the canal and outer moat, and traverse the long avenue, past the gasometers, as far as the navigable canal from Bruges to Ostend. Then retrace your steps to the gateway, and return by the ramparts and the Railway Station to the Rue Nord du Sablon. These four walks will show you almost all that is externally interesting in the streets and canals of the city. * * * * * The original Palace of the Counts of Flanders, we saw, occupied the site of the Palais de Justice. Their later residence, the =Cour des Princes=, in a street behind the Hôtel du Commerce, has now entirely disappeared. Its site is filled by a large ornate modern building, belonging to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who use it as a school for girls. The water-system of Bruges is also interesting. The original river Reye enters the town at the Minnewater, flows past the Hospital and the Dyver, and turns northward at the Bourg, running under arches till it emerges on the Place Jan van Eyck. This accounts for the apparently meaningless way this branch seems to stop short close to the statue of Van Eyck: also, for the mediæval ships unloading at the Grand’ Place. The water is now mostly diverted along the canals and the moat by the ramparts. _E._ THE CHURCHES [The =original Cathedral= of Bruges (St. Donatian) was destroyed, as we saw, by the French, in 1799; but the town still possesses two fine =mediæval churches= of considerable pretensions, as well as several others of lesser importance. Though of very ancient foundation, the two principal churches in their existing form date only from the most flourishing period of Bruges, the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. =St. Salvator= or =St. Sauveur=, the larger, was erected into the =Cathedral= after the destruction of St. Donatian, whose relics were transferred to it. To this, therefore, we will first direct ourselves.] Go down the Rue des Pierres as far as THE CATHEDRAL, which replaces a very ancient church built by St. Eligius (St. Éloy) in 646. Externally, the edifice, which is built of brick, has rather a heavy and cumbrous effect, its chief good features being the handsome square tower and the large decorated windows of the N. and S. Transepts. The Choir and its chapels have the characteristic French form of a _chevêt_. The main portal of the N. Transept has been robbed of its sculpture. The Choir is of the late 13th century: the Nave and Transept are mainly in the decorated style of the 14th.