Damme is about three miles out of the city. It is situated on the banks of the Sluys Canal. There is a very good steamboat service, and the pleasantest way to reach it is by water. The Damme Town Hall dates from the end of the fourteenth century, and is a charming old building. Here, too, is a convent and hospital which dates from the thirteenth century, and there are some quaint old houses. When Bruges was at its heyday the population of Damme amounted to sixty thousand souls. The number of its inhabitants is now probably less than one thousand. Lisseweghe is some five miles from Bruges. The pleasantest way to reach it is by walking or driving. About a mile short of the village, a little off the high road on the left-hand side, are the ruins of _Ter Doest Abbey_, well worth visiting. The great Gothic grange or barn dates from the close of the thirteenth century (about 1280), and is still intact, a stupendous building, 187 feet by 75 feet or thereabouts, and nearly 100 feet high from the ground to the ridge of the roof. Lisseweghe can also be reached by rail. Of the other famous buildings of Bruges we have already spoken. By the aid of the map and the directions previously given, the reader will have no difficulty in ascertaining their whereabouts. Bruges is a city of considerable size; its ramparts measure nearly five miles round, and it is hardly an exaggeration to say there is no spot within this magic circle devoid of interest. The stranger who, having hurried through its churches and picture galleries in the morning, and whiled away an hour or so in its streets in the afternoon, fancies that he knows Bruges is vastly mistaken. For our own part, we have dwelt in this enchanted city for many years, and the sum of its loveliness, we feel very sure, has not yet been revealed to us. [Illustration: PLAN OF BRVGES] INDEX A Abbey of St. Bavon at Ghent, 335. Abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer, to which Arnulph acted as abbot, 23. Acta of Louis the Fat, the, compiled by Suger, Abbot of St. Denis, and containing a life of Charles the Good, 40. Adelard II., Abbot of St. Trond, 334. Adornes, Hôtel d', erected by Anselm and John Adornes, 320-2. Alliance, the, of Bruges, Ghent and Ypres, 192. Amand, St., Bishop of Bourges, 2. Arnulph, son of Baldwin Calvus, 21; his work in the reformation and re-organisation of the Church in Flanders, 22-5. Arnulph II., his reign, 26. Arnulph, Abbot of Blandinium, requested to bury the body of Charles secretly, 50. Arras, the Treaty of, 230. Artois, Count of, his part in the invasion of Flanders in conjunction with Philippe le Bel, 154, 155, 157; his death, 159. Aspremont, the Lord of, lieutenant to Louis II. of Nevers, 177; rebellion of the Karls against his tyranny, and his dismissal from office, 178. Austria, the Archduke of, his regency over Flanders, 274, 275. B Backwater of the Roya, upon which Baldwin's new Bourg was built, 11, 12.