. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. r of the town near therailway. Altogether Pontailler is an agreeable little place,but quite uninteresting except for the singular beauty of thefalse river. To the west is the Mont Ardou, a hill of nopicturesque interest, and to the north a flat green plain upto the limits of the forest that we traversed yesterday. Thepresent bridge over the Saone is a modern iron structure onbrick piers. The old bridge was blown up by the inhabitantsduring the Franco-German War, but this did not preserve thetown from occupation
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. r of the town near therailway. Altogether Pontailler is an agreeable little place,but quite uninteresting except for the singular beauty of thefalse river. To the west is the Mont Ardou, a hill of nopicturesque interest, and to the north a flat green plain upto the limits of the forest that we traversed yesterday. Thepresent bridge over the Saone is a modern iron structure onbrick piers. The old bridge was blown up by the inhabitantsduring the Franco-German War, but this did not preserve thetown from occupation by the enemy. Mr. Pennell muchregretted this useless destruction as there are now so fewold bridges upon the Saone. During our walk to-day wepassed along a road upon an embankment where men were 142 The Saone. busy erecting an important iron bridge over a small marshyplace. It seemed out of all proportion to the need, but theexplanation is that it is placed there to relieve the uppergrounds in the floods. At such times the flat country abovePontaillcr must be an extensive Pontailler, on the Old Saone. LETTER XXVI. Pontailler, Jane 2\th, 10 You will perhaps be rather surprised to learn that we areat this minute in a state of arrest. We are prisoners, thoughallowed to remain on board the Boussemroum. When we had just finished our morning soup I happenedto look out of the door of the saloon and beheld four gendarmescomine towards the boat in a deliberate manner. At first Ithought their visit was one of simple curiosity, but I was verysoon undeceived. When they were close to the boat one ofthem said to me, You have an individual on board who A Summer Voyage. 143 makes plans. No, I answered, trying to establish a necessarybut difficult distinction, we have an artist on board who makesdrawings, but that is not the same thing. Yes, he makes plans, said the gendarme. I myself sawhim doing so this morning ; let me see what he did this morn-ing. I then asked Mr. Pennell to
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