It was only in the year 1849 that the front was ornamented with statues representing the day of judgment. This group, consisting of fifteen gigantic figures, was made after the old drawings preserved in the archives of the _[OE]uvre-Notre-Dame_. Jesus-Christ, as judge, is in the middle, with Mary and John the Baptist on either side; they are surrounded by angels sounding the trumpet of dooms-day, or bearing the instruments of our Saviour's passion; beneath are seen the Evangelists, having men's bodies surmounted by the heads of the four symbols which generally accompany them. Above the middle porch and the southward tower, is the platform, very spacious and surrounded by a handsome balustrade; on it is built a small house for the guardians charged to strike the hours and ring the alarm bell in case of fire. From the top of this platform one enjoys a magnificent view; the wonderful panorama that unfolds itself from there, has been drawn with as much taste as accuracy by Mr. Frederic Piton, a zealous _amateur_ of our local history. Towards the North, in the direction of the Wacken, an island near Strasburg, is seen on the horizon the mountain of the _Pigeonnier_ (_Scherhol_ in German), at the foot of which lies Wissemburg; to its right rise the peaks crowned by the ruins of _Gutenberg_ and _Trifels_, and the famous _Geisberg_ taken by storm in the war of 1870. On the other side of the Rhine, whose majestic stream the eye can easily trace, the long range of the mountains of the _Black Forest_ limits the horizon. The first peak that is seen is that of the _Eichelberg_, at the opening of the valley of the _Murg_; then comes the _Fremersberg_, the _Mount-Mercury_, the mountain with the ruins of _Yburg_; all these names are known to those who have visited Baden. Beyond these summits is the high level ground of the _Hornisgruende_, on the other side of which is seen, in the midst of a forest, the dark lake named _Mummelsee_. Farther on, eastward, beyond the arsenal of Strasburg and the village of Kehl, you observe the castle of _Schauenburg_, near Oberkirch, where the valley of the _Rench_ begins. After gliding over the ruin of _Fuersteneck_ and _Schauenburg_, the eye rests on the stately buildings of _Ortenberg_, rebuilt after the middle age architecture, at the entrance of the valley of the _Kinzig_. Directing your eye more towards the South, you discover the mountains of _Triberg_, and close to them those of _Lahr_; then comes the loftiest peak of the _Black Forest_, the _Feldberg_, 1494 metres high. Farther on the eye may discover (if tine) the _Ballon_ and the _Blauen_, behind the hills of the _Kaiserstuhl_; thence this ridge of mountains is lost sight of. In the plain, between the Rhine and the Vosges, a double row of poplars points out the _Canal_ (from the Rhone to the Rhine). The first peak seen in the range of the Vosges towards the South-East is the _Ballon of Sultz_, 993 metres high; the eye then discovers in a western direction the