. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. withirreproachable neatness and cleanliness. There is a window in the room where we had ourmeal that looks out upon the Saone. On a former voyagewe dined here, and had a perfect view of Mont Blancall the time. Our host was not at all aware that MontBlanc was visible from his window, he had always takenthe mountain for a cloud. So we lent him our telescope andmade him see the dome and the aiguilles. At first all the snowyparts were of a warm white, and the aiguilles dark by contrast,then the white became rosy at
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. withirreproachable neatness and cleanliness. There is a window in the room where we had ourmeal that looks out upon the Saone. On a former voyagewe dined here, and had a perfect view of Mont Blancall the time. Our host was not at all aware that MontBlanc was visible from his window, he had always takenthe mountain for a cloud. So we lent him our telescope andmade him see the dome and the aiguilles. At first all the snowyparts were of a warm white, and the aiguilles dark by contrast,then the white became rosy at sunset, and after sunset the moun-tain remained visible for some time as a purple-grey silhouette, A Summer Voyage. 271 both snows and aiguilles dark against the sky. A cloud rosegradually behind it, exactly of the same hue, and after a whilewe could only distinguish the summit of the mountain by itswell-known forms. The distance is a hundred miles. This time Mont Blanc remained invisible though the day wasbrilliantly fine. The breeze increased and got up a sea, but adhfeuMMMki. Island of Fleurville from the Inn. it was still against us, and on continuing our voyage we had tobeat to windward in a narrow channel the whole length of aninterminable wooded island. We had a short, chopping sea, andthe water was too shallow at the sides to permit the use of thecentre-board ; however, the A rar had sufficient lateral resistanceto go to windward without it. On this occasion she was exactlyin those circumstances which are most unfavourable to acatamaran—rough water and short tacks—but in course of timewe got past the long island, and then the wind declined. After 272 The Saone. the island a long subaqueous wall has been continued by theengineers in the same southerly direction. Not knowing how farthis extended we had a mistaken idea that it had come to anend, and ignorantly sailed straight at it. The keels struck simul-taneously and rose upon the wall, bringing us to a dead stop.
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