. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. rar. 1 The act of the civil authorities was the more brutal that Cluny had been in themiddle ages the home of learning and the light of Europe. It is unquestionable,says Viollet-le-Duc, that Cluny supplied western Europe with architects as it furnishtdreforming scholars, professors for schools, painters, savants, physicians, ambassadors,bishops, sovereigns, and popes, for if Cluny were effaced from the eleventh centurylittle would be left but darkness, ignorance, and monstrous abuses. It is pleasant to know tha
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. rar. 1 The act of the civil authorities was the more brutal that Cluny had been in themiddle ages the home of learning and the light of Europe. It is unquestionable,says Viollet-le-Duc, that Cluny supplied western Europe with architects as it furnishtdreforming scholars, professors for schools, painters, savants, physicians, ambassadors,bishops, sovereigns, and popes, for if Cluny were effaced from the eleventh centurylittle would be left but darkness, ignorance, and monstrous abuses. It is pleasant to know that when the Cluny Vandals presented themselves beforeNapoleon at Macon he reproached them as they deserved. A Summer Voyage. 237 I had a fancy for making an experiment. I had found onthe last voyage that the Arar would come round without herjib, and therefore tried to suppress it, but after a fair trialit was Stephens opinion, and mine also, that a jib must beconsidered an indispensable sail on a catamaran. On canoesthe case is different, and the suppression of the sail is The Arar under sail. This question being settled we restored the jib, and perhaps itwas quite as well that we had done so when an unforeseen perilrevealed itself. Just at the moment of tacking, when the Ararv/as in stays, I perceived that we were within a very few yards of 1 A jib in canoes is a troublesome snare, its driving power is comparatively small,and it is only in play when the wind is abeam or forward of the beam ; yet it entailsa lot of extra gear, requires constant watching, and in a really bad squall is suicidalto the boat.—Dixon Kemp. 238 The Sadne. one of those great subaqueous walls that are calleddayonnages. These walls are built out in the river to protectthe shore from erosion, but as they do not rise above the surfaceand are not marked, as they ought to be, by buoys, you have tolearn where they are by actual experience. This clayonnage firstcame far out into the river from the lef
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