. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Where we slept at Port de Thoissey. terrace, with all correct observances, down to cooling the is a tendency in the dejeuner to repeat itself during thepresent voyage—melon, matelote, grapes, and peaches reappearedat Thoissey under the shade of the much-spreading orientalplanes. Peaches are almost as plentiful here as apples inNormandy. The most expensive restaurant in Paris would be less to mytaste than this terrace, with the broad Saone below, the -slender 298 The Saone. masts of the Avar peeping u
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Where we slept at Port de Thoissey. terrace, with all correct observances, down to cooling the is a tendency in the dejeuner to repeat itself during thepresent voyage—melon, matelote, grapes, and peaches reappearedat Thoissey under the shade of the much-spreading orientalplanes. Peaches are almost as plentiful here as apples inNormandy. The most expensive restaurant in Paris would be less to mytaste than this terrace, with the broad Saone below, the -slender 298 The Saone. masts of the Avar peeping up between the trees, and the hills ofthe Bcaujolais beyond. It is perhaps most charming to dinehere late in a summer evening and enjoy the delicious coolnessan hour after sunset when the sky is still crimson in the west, andthe evening star is brightening over the obscure western Near Thoissey. LETTER XLIX. Port de Belleville,September loth. We quitted Thoissey immediately after dejeuner, and havinga favourable wind soon came to the lock. There was a steam-tug in it but I saw that the gate was still open, and when we gotwithin hailing distance asked if we could go through at the sametime. We are waiting for you, said the lockkeeper verypolitely. Had he not waited we might have been detained therefor hours as there is no obligation to open the locks for pleasure- A Summer Voyage. 299 boats, and at present the keepers do not willingly spend thewater of the river, which is very low. When the water is super-abundant they will pass a pleasure-boat even if it is alone. Soon after leaving this lock a trifling accident occurred. Ablock had been insufficiently fastened to the foremast at Chalon,so it now came down suddenly, and the gaff and foresail with was a matter of small consequence, as Stephen immediatelyclimbed the mast and fixed the block more securely,
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