. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. .Here ones impression is that of being admitted into someroyal demesne on artificial waters intended for state andpleasure. Mr. Pennell expressed our feelings exactly whenhe said that the rude Boussemroum, quite in her place onthe natural river, was unworthy to float on these canals wherethe only suitable craft would be a boat of the most finishedbeaut) and elegance. I said it ought to be a gilded barge,with a glass saloon, or at the least, a gondola. We had excellent evidence, in this canal, of the utility ofa
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. .Here ones impression is that of being admitted into someroyal demesne on artificial waters intended for state andpleasure. Mr. Pennell expressed our feelings exactly whenhe said that the rude Boussemroum, quite in her place onthe natural river, was unworthy to float on these canals wherethe only suitable craft would be a boat of the most finishedbeaut) and elegance. I said it ought to be a gilded barge,with a glass saloon, or at the least, a gondola. We had excellent evidence, in this canal, of the utility ofan ordnance map. I never travel without these maps, andhave extracted from them a complete atlas of the Pilot, like all his brethren, is full of confidence in hisown knowledge, which is derived from ocular observation and 92 The Saonc. memory, and never refreshed by a reference to any documentin the intervals of his voyages. Midway through this canalis a large basin, and the Pilot was leaving this behind, whenI suddenly came out of my cabin and ordered him to turn ? V. Canal between Scey and Chcmilly. back and moor the Boussemroum in the basin itself, and onits eastern shore. The Pilot defended himself by affirmingthat he was going to Scey. I said he was going away fromthat place (which was quite invisible from the water) and cutshort all discussion by a peremptory command. When the 8 8
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