. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. military authorities,and that, in any producible form, I shall certainly never obtain. The finest sight in Trevoux is the famous view from theterrace. This we did not fail to see at the best time, a littleafter sunset. It naturally suggests a comparison with the well-known view from Richmond Hill. It is not any recent passionfor the Saone that leads me to prefer the view from the terracehere. It is grander for two or three reasons, but especiallybecause it includes mountains. The Mont dOr is hardly amountain, b
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. military authorities,and that, in any producible form, I shall certainly never obtain. The finest sight in Trevoux is the famous view from theterrace. This we did not fail to see at the best time, a littleafter sunset. It naturally suggests a comparison with the well-known view from Richmond Hill. It is not any recent passionfor the Saone that leads me to prefer the view from the terracehere. It is grander for two or three reasons, but especiallybecause it includes mountains. The Mont dOr is hardly amountain, being only two thousand feet high, but it haspicturesque forms, it rises conspicuously from a low country,and it is near enough to be imposing. This is to the south-west. The view on the north-west is bounded by the hillsof the Beaujolais that we saw from Beauregard, and immediatelyin front, in the west, is a remote mountainous distance extremelygraceful in form, as seen from here range behind range to thecrests of the Tarare Mountains, as high as Skiddaw or Helvellyn. (FN s I 5r. ?to \;;?:f?^lfe^f
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