. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. there were only ferry-boats in old times. 1 The word orage, on the banks of the Saone, has not its usual French meaning,as I noticed in Letter XVI. In ordinary French it means a storm, generally athunderstorm, but on the Saone it means the south wind, and by extension any wind,even a light breeze. Our Pilot called the faintest breezes lorage, which producesthe oddest effect till one is accustomed to it. The English reader may realise this bysupposing that in some part of England faint breezes were always called
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. there were only ferry-boats in old times. 1 The word orage, on the banks of the Saone, has not its usual French meaning,as I noticed in Letter XVI. In ordinary French it means a storm, generally athunderstorm, but on the Saone it means the south wind, and by extension any wind,even a light breeze. Our Pilot called the faintest breezes lorage, which producesthe oddest effect till one is accustomed to it. The English reader may realise this bysupposing that in some part of England faint breezes were always called thunderstormsby the inhabitants. G 82 77/i? Saone. There is a fine Renaissance church at Port-sur-Saone, of simplebut serious and dignified architecture, that rather surprises onein so small a place. It was much more like a minor church in agreat city. The body of it is stately and plain, the east end richwith a moderate display of gilding on dark panels. An interiorof this kind must produce a strong effect on country people whoare not accustomed to see dignified
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