. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. s memory. If everyhuman being who has had occasion to be grateful to the discoverer of photographyhad contributed to this work the sculptor might have been royally remunerated, andthe statue instead of bronze, might have been of silver and gold. There is a museum at Chalon for the preservation of antiquities and pictures, but itpossesses one treasure that is absolutely unique, a glass case containing the apparatuswith which Niepce made his immortal experiments, and some plates engraved by himwhich are the earli
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. s memory. If everyhuman being who has had occasion to be grateful to the discoverer of photographyhad contributed to this work the sculptor might have been royally remunerated, andthe statue instead of bronze, might have been of silver and gold. There is a museum at Chalon for the preservation of antiquities and pictures, but itpossesses one treasure that is absolutely unique, a glass case containing the apparatuswith which Niepce made his immortal experiments, and some plates engraved by himwhich are the earliest specimens of heliogravure. 230 T/ie Saone. It is one of my rules always to have the materials for onemeal in reserve on board the Avar, but never more. This mealis ready cooked to save trouble, and if it is not eaten I have itcleared out of the provision-box at the next inn, and replacedby a fresh one on departure. By following this rule we avoidspoilt food in this hot weather, though if we remain away fromthe inns twelve hours at a time we may be put on rathershort The Avar, Deck Vieiv. I have been anxious to spare you details about boat-building,but some parts of our voyage would be unintelligible if I didnot tell you that the Avar is a catamaran or double boat on theprinciple of the Calais-Douvres. She has consequently a fiat,floor-like deck, and when she is run aground she remains steadywithout heeling to one side or the other, and requires no crutches. You will therefore imagine us at supper on thisflat deck with a lantern hanging above us from a piece of stringthat goes from one mast to the other. We possess very low,but very comfortable, chairs expressly devised for the boat,and I can assure you that on a fine night there are less pleasant A Slimmer Voyage. 231 supper-rooms than the chamber, as we call it, of the we manage in bad weather you will learn when thatkind of weather comes. As we are quite accustomed to living on board, our repastsare co
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