. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. t heeling, in fact, you may sailthrough a gust of wind without spilling a drop from a wine-glass, I mean on protected water. On a catamaran, too, yourrelations with the water, though not dangerous, are very closeand intimate. You see the emerald stream rushing faster than1 M. LEplattenier, also a member of the Neuville Yacht Club. A Summer Voyage. 329 the Rhone under the suspended deck which is only a lightbridge, and even small waves may splash harmlessly over thehulls. I feel, said M. Vibert, as if I were sai
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. t heeling, in fact, you may sailthrough a gust of wind without spilling a drop from a wine-glass, I mean on protected water. On a catamaran, too, yourrelations with the water, though not dangerous, are very closeand intimate. You see the emerald stream rushing faster than1 M. LEplattenier, also a member of the Neuville Yacht Club. A Summer Voyage. 329 the Rhone under the suspended deck which is only a lightbridge, and even small waves may splash harmlessly over thehulls. I feel, said M. Vibert, as if I were sailing on a plank. Immediately after this trial of the Avar we bade adieu toNeuville. How marvellously the significance of a name changeswith changed experience ! Neuville once meant for mesimply the least beautiful town upon the Saone with an uglychurch, a long promenade, and a shot tower ; to-day it meansthe place where the flower of French amiability grows fairest. A good breeze soon took us past the islands of Albigny anddown to the lock at Couzon, the last lock in the
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