. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. , too, are handsome andcomfortable, and have red curtains. Altogether it is one of therichest-looking peasant interiors I ever saw, and it would cer-tainly produce an admirable effect in a picture if the detailswere carefully painted. WTe made the discovery of this room on a previous had been beating to windward in cold and rain, and afterpassing this place, as we were then sailing northwards, we hadstill some hours of tedious work before us in the dark. I beganto feel symptoms of chill and thought it
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. , too, are handsome andcomfortable, and have red curtains. Altogether it is one of therichest-looking peasant interiors I ever saw, and it would cer-tainly produce an admirable effect in a picture if the detailswere carefully painted. WTe made the discovery of this room on a previous had been beating to windward in cold and rain, and afterpassing this place, as we were then sailing northwards, we hadstill some hours of tedious work before us in the dark. I beganto feel symptoms of chill and thought it prudent to return here,when we discovered the qualities of this quiet inn and thoseof the good people who keep it. 234 The Saone. LETTER XXXIX. La Colonne,August 30///, Afternoon. Few scenes are more characteristic of the Lower Saone thanthe view from Port dOuroux early on a splendid morning. Theplace has no advantage of altitude, it is merely the rivers bank,perhaps twenty feet above the level of the water, and yetthere is a most open prospect in every direction. It is useless. Pott dOuroux, North End. to attempt any minute description of scenery, but you may soonrealise the character of this. To the east is a vast green prairiewithout a division, level for a long distance, then rising gentlyto a low eminence, which is crowned by a village. Westwards,across the river, is another green plain, quite fiat, with a villagein the middle of it and hills beyond, with white gleaming villageson these. To the north another stretch of plain and anothervillage, to the south a straight reach of river four or five mileslong interrupted only by a distant bridge. I have often heardthis scenery described as dull, or even ugly, but it has character, A Summer Voyage. 235 and on a bright sunny morning the character is would like to be a horse galloping in freedom over the softgreen plain, or, better still, one of those sea-gulls that flyabove the river, and have come up so far f
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