. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Is I Up. The Lock at Corre. the lock. The fastening of boats with huge ropes takes muchmore time than the coupling of railway carriages. Sometimeswe had to wait at a lock till a descending train had passedthrough. Our last lock, at Corre, where we left the steamer behind 1 Subsequent experience proved clearly that we should never have accomplished theascent with horses, for a reason to be explained later. And as we could not row orsail the Boussemroum a tug was absolutely the only thing. A Summer Voyage. 41 too
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Is I Up. The Lock at Corre. the lock. The fastening of boats with huge ropes takes muchmore time than the coupling of railway carriages. Sometimeswe had to wait at a lock till a descending train had passedthrough. Our last lock, at Corre, where we left the steamer behind 1 Subsequent experience proved clearly that we should never have accomplished theascent with horses, for a reason to be explained later. And as we could not row orsail the Boussemroum a tug was absolutely the only thing. A Summer Voyage. 41 took us out of the Saone altogether, and into the canal thatnow connects that river with the Meuse and with the canalsystems of Belgium and Holland. We are now beyond thenavigable Saone, and the Boussemroum has reached the highestpoint of her voyage. We feel that it is an immense deliver-ance to be disengaged from the steam-tug. The Captain andI have had no liberty for a week. He, at least, could amusehimself by looking at the scenery, but I have only enjoyedit by glimpses, having been so m
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