Along France's river of romance: . i^^ % TO ST. NAZAIRE 317 driving in under the awning, and then steamed by thepicturesque ship-building yards on the He de la Madeleine,where the naked ribs of an iron vessel under constructionlooked rusty and desolate in the rain. On the right thestately line of stone houses bordering the quays slippedby us, partly obscured by a row of trucks which werebeing dragged to the main station by a panting the wharf at the far western end of the town,under a low cliff, was moored a splendid three-mastedsailing-vessel with swelling bows, a white mermaid
Along France's river of romance: . i^^ % TO ST. NAZAIRE 317 driving in under the awning, and then steamed by thepicturesque ship-building yards on the He de la Madeleine,where the naked ribs of an iron vessel under constructionlooked rusty and desolate in the rain. On the right thestately line of stone houses bordering the quays slippedby us, partly obscured by a row of trucks which werebeing dragged to the main station by a panting the wharf at the far western end of the town,under a low cliff, was moored a splendid three-mastedsailing-vessel with swelling bows, a white mermaidfor a figure-head and a long, tapering bowsprit. Shelooked as clean as a new pin, her sides were painted apale, fresh green, and she hailed from some port in thePacific. Her flag was unfamiliar, and had a brightpatch of green in it. After Nantes came Chantenay, two and a half milesdown, with big factories and workshops ; then the twolittle ports, standing back from the river, of Basse-Indreand Indret, with gleaming white churches
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