_ 174 _ a meal in a cool city called Chambéry, which is encircled by a strong wall with gateways and good defense. It has some fine buildings and houses, and there is a parliament there and a Council of the Duke. Half a league beyond there we ascended a mountain called Mont Aiguebelette by partly-paved roads which were very rough. We slept in the village of Aiguebelette, which is on the descent from the mountain from which it takes its name. Before the mountain, there is a lake called Le Bourget, which joins the Rhône, from which barges go loaded for Milan. Here in Aiguebelette, there is another lake called Guiers, which runs into the Rhone near Lyons before the Bourget enters the Rhône. On the next day, we broke our fast in a small village called Pont de Bon Voisin, four leagues from Chambéry. The River Guiers flows into the aforementioned lakes. This river divides Savoy from the Dauphiné in France, which lies to its west. We dined in a small village called La Verpillière, seven leagues from Pont de Bon Voisin. We travelled over plains covered with walnut-trees, vines and farms and slept on 17 July in Lyon in France, which is five leagues from La Verpillière. This was eleven days after leaving Venice and having changed horses many times at the inns. Lyons has twelve thousand citizens and is situated to the
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