... the College St. Barbe, and the Rue St. Jean de Latran, is a pile of houses known as the Mont St. Hilaire. It resembles a chess-board ; it is filled by little, dirty, and narrow streets, which cross each other at right angles. Amid it there is a spot ...

... ingenious contrivances invented by Mr. Littledale, a blind teacher in the Asylum at York, were exhibited, among which was a small chess-board and a very simple printing press, that may be constructed for a few shillings, by means of which the blind may emboss ...