. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. uth of the Doubs to Neuville,above Lyons, it is the best river to sail upon in Europe,and probably in the world. This quality is not owingsimpl) i the extreme slowness of the current, but alsoto a general sufficiency of depth, and to the good ex-posure of the surface of the water to the action ofdifferent winds. The scenery of the navigable Sa6ne is never so hillyanywhere as it is between Trevoux and Lyons, but inthe upper river the ground is pleasantly diversified bythe kind of hill that the French call collin
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. uth of the Doubs to Neuville,above Lyons, it is the best river to sail upon in Europe,and probably in the world. This quality is not owingsimpl) i the extreme slowness of the current, but alsoto a general sufficiency of depth, and to the good ex-posure of the surface of the water to the action ofdifferent winds. The scenery of the navigable Sa6ne is never so hillyanywhere as it is between Trevoux and Lyons, but inthe upper river the ground is pleasantly diversified bythe kind of hill that the French call collincs, and thereare many beautiful woods. From Verdun to Ormer, avillage a few miles above Tournus, the scenery is almostDutch in its flatness, but not without a strong characterand a peculiar beauty of its own. Afterwards it remains nerally open, with fine distances, till the distances Income more mountainous as we travel south, and finally the hills approach the borders of the river just below rrevoux, which is rather more than fourteen miles above Lyons. Section i BovuBeVeLUe®^. from% ^ource to QtleS VlE/^E. 5 £. of Grce. nuyick. Preface. ix The landscape of the Saone is alternately beautiful ordull (the dull parts giving the voyager a renewedappetite for the beauty that is sure to follow), but it isseldom grand, except with the kind of grandeur thatmay be due to vastness of space. It has more thecharacter of the sea than that of a lake district. The towns and villages by which the Sadne passes arerich in interest for the artist, and many of them also forthe archaeologist, but the reader ought to be warned thatsketching is scarcely tolerated. The arrest of the authorand of the artist who accompanied him was believed inEngland to have been a mistake resulting from officiouszeal in combination with ridiculous ignorance ; but, in fact,the gendarmes acted according to their instructions, andthe release of the sketchers was due entirely to theauthority of a distinguished General,
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