. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. A Street at Cendrecourt. interest. There had been a hail-storm at Jussey a few daysbefore which had cost the little town and neighbourhood no lessthan 40,000/ in damage done to surrounding crops. This is aterribly heavy tax on so small a place. It would be thoughta hard impost during a war. Jussey has about 3,000 urbaninhabitants. There is a flat plain between Jussey and the Saone but a F 66 The Saone. steep hill or cotcau rises just behind the town. I wish therewere a good special English word for coteait, whi
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. A Street at Cendrecourt. interest. There had been a hail-storm at Jussey a few daysbefore which had cost the little town and neighbourhood no lessthan 40,000/ in damage done to surrounding crops. This is aterribly heavy tax on so small a place. It would be thoughta hard impost during a war. Jussey has about 3,000 urbaninhabitants. There is a flat plain between Jussey and the Saone but a F 66 The Saone. steep hill or cotcau rises just behind the town. I wish therewere a good special English word for coteait, which is much moreexactly descriptive than the general term hill. Our wordbank, which comes nearest, gives the motion of somethingmuch smaller, like the bank of a river. A coteau is a high bank,generally with a table-land above. Seen from below, it veryfrequently presents the appearance of a real hill. Jussey, at present, is a rather picturesque little town, remark-able chiefly for its delightfully abundant supply of pure spring. Cendrecourt from the Fields. water in public and private fountains. The Amance, a tributaryof the Saone, passes by Jussey. In the times of the Spanishdomination (Franche Comte was a possession of Spain in thesixteenth century) the place was well fortified with a strongcastle and ramparts, but these have entirely disappeared. The banker we were to have seen, and whom I did notknow personally, had driven to his garden near the Saone andwe had met him on the road without being aware of it. Thesame thing happened on our return, so we missed each other a A Summer Voyage. 67 second time. On arriving at the Boiissemroum I learned that anartist who lived part of the year at Corre (M. Dagnan-Bouveret)had sent a messenger on horseback after us to invite us to hisstudio on the banks of the Saone below Ormoy, but we are ratherpressed for time on account of our slow locomotion, and wecannot well go back, even for a few miles. During our visit to Jussey, Mr. Pennell m
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