. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Gray, the Bridge and Weir. The weirs and locks on the Saone are at the same timetelephonic stations from which you may send news relating tothe navigation. Near one of these stations I told the Pilotto have our whereabouts telephoned to Gray, where I havefriends. The lock-keepers sometimes hold telephonic conversa-tions, and I remember hearing a double conversation of thiskind up and down the river at a distance of about thirty miles 1 In winter encampments linings are useful as a protection against snow, which
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Gray, the Bridge and Weir. The weirs and locks on the Saone are at the same timetelephonic stations from which you may send news relating tothe navigation. Near one of these stations I told the Pilotto have our whereabouts telephoned to Gray, where I havefriends. The lock-keepers sometimes hold telephonic conversa-tions, and I remember hearing a double conversation of thiskind up and down the river at a distance of about thirty miles 1 In winter encampments linings are useful as a protection against snow, whichcomes through the outer canvas in a fine powdei A Summer Voyage. 31 on one side and fifty on the other. At the longer distance Irecognised a girls voice, and afterwards a womans, and thelock-keeper told me that he knew the speakers individuallyby their voices. The girl said she was afraid, the telephoneseemed uncanny to her. Whether uncanny or not, thesetelephones render immense services to the river navigation asevery rise of the water is announced beforehand. LETTER XII. ? N
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