. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Si. >... asx? ^*^5*v-»tNiL 7^ Bonssemroum in the Canal at Chcmilly. curve by islets and shallows to the old castle of Chemilly. Here,of course, as at all the curves that are not navigable, a canalopened its gates to the Boussemroum, and shortly after, we weremoored to the shore beneath a brightening moon. Nothing can exceed the tranquillity of an evening spent insuch a place as this. The shore of the canal is like a lawn : 86 The Sadne. it has been freshly mown, and the hay is in little heaps. Thethin, delic
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Si. >... asx? ^*^5*v-»tNiL 7^ Bonssemroum in the Canal at Chcmilly. curve by islets and shallows to the old castle of Chemilly. Here,of course, as at all the curves that are not navigable, a canalopened its gates to the Boussemroum, and shortly after, we weremoored to the shore beneath a brightening moon. Nothing can exceed the tranquillity of an evening spent insuch a place as this. The shore of the canal is like a lawn : 86 The Sadne. it has been freshly mown, and the hay is in little heaps. Thethin, delicate young trees stand in their peaceful order, whilstbeyond them the untamed river flows in its old channel as ithas flowed for a thousand years, and the murmur of it comesto us without ceasing, here in our protected rest. To my taste there is nothing in our present voyage morecharming than the hours when the Boussemroum is mooredfor the night. Even in the worst weather we enjoy theevenings in the saloon, when the Captain sits in state in theone arm-chair we possess, but on fine ev
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