. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. of the most perfect in its absolute unity that I hadever beheld. The moon had now gained strength, giving real moonlight,and there was just enough mist to convey the impression ofvastness without concealing very much. Amongst the hillsto the right were plainly visible the pale silhouettes of tworemarkable cliffs, one of which is Solutre, close to the cavewhere such prodigious quantities of pre-historic remains 288 The Sao fie. have been discovered. These cliffs present a very strikingprofile, the land rises in
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. of the most perfect in its absolute unity that I hadever beheld. The moon had now gained strength, giving real moonlight,and there was just enough mist to convey the impression ofvastness without concealing very much. Amongst the hillsto the right were plainly visible the pale silhouettes of tworemarkable cliffs, one of which is Solutre, close to the cavewhere such prodigious quantities of pre-historic remains 288 The Sao fie. have been discovered. These cliffs present a very strikingprofile, the land rises in a gradual slope up to the edge ofthem, and then there is a sheer precipice as if the hill hadbeen blasted away, but it is natural in both. As we were now quite clear of the town, the young menbegan to use the tow rope and I had good reason to con-gratulate myself on the small draught of water of the Avar,and also on her lightness, for the river was extremely shallownear the shore, and she grounded repeatedly. Whenever shedoes this, a man walks on each of her hulls and poles her. Cliffs of Solutre. - ~ — - off easily, thanks to the entire absence of ballast and thestability of the double construction. Whilst Stephen was towing he found a great number ofquails, as many, he thought, as fifty in one place. They arein season now, wonderfully plump birds, and as good to eatas partridges. At length the absolute solitude of this most tranquil andpeaceful scene was enlivened by a sign of human to the south-west we could make out a dark spot onthe right bank more square in shape than a clump of trees,and in the midst of this burned one brilliant star of goldenlight reflected in the river. A Summer Voyage. 289 What an advantage it is to know a river well already andbe your own pilot! Stranger tourists would have seen no-thing in that dark spot but a lonely peasants and I knew better. We shouted to Maurice, whowas laboriously doing his duty at the tow-rope
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