. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. his incident at length as it is strikingevidence of the importance of freshness in impressions and ofthe power of effect upon the mind. The immediate conse-quence of it, for me, was that I declined to return to Ruptthis morning, having walked there last evening in the shall have my first and only impression of Rupt inmy next letter. Meanwhile I may observe that the nativesdo not pronounce the name like the second syllable of bank-rupt, but like the French word rue, yet more curtly. Vibratethe r wel
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. his incident at length as it is strikingevidence of the importance of freshness in impressions and ofthe power of effect upon the mind. The immediate conse-quence of it, for me, was that I declined to return to Ruptthis morning, having walked there last evening in the shall have my first and only impression of Rupt inmy next letter. Meanwhile I may observe that the nativesdo not pronounce the name like the second syllable of bank-rupt, but like the French word rue, yet more curtly. Vibratethe r well, pronounce the u clearly, but cut it off short andsharp, even as a woodman chops off a twig. On no accountmay you introduce a dying English cadence after your u for thesake of a softer effect. LETTER XXI. Opposite Ray, June iSth. As usual, we are moored in a canal. The length of this oneis about a mile and three-quarters, and it differs from the othersin being bordered with a much greater variety of trees. Ithas Scotch firs, besides other kinds of fir, ash, poplar, &c. The. Rupt, Ike Church. A Summer Voyage. 103 banks are rather high, in two terraces, one for the towing-paththe other for the trees. This gave an excellent opportunity for observing the differenceof effect between monotony and variety in trees. At Scey themagnificent canal avenue was all of one species—poplar—at Rayit is of many kinds. The answer, as to effect, is easy. Themonotonous avenue far excels the other in power and solemnityof effect, but the varied one is pieasanter to stay in. The treesin a private park ought to be as varied as possible near thehouse, and monotonous in one or two more remote places, to bevisited in more serious moods. In my last letter I promised some account of Rupt. This isa village of 440 inhabitants on the right bank of the Saone (butnot close to the water), at a place where the river becomesnavigable again after its course about the peninsula of is a castle on
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