. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. pcniche will stop, you may besure, on every one of its future voyages. At a place called Le Chatelet there is a lock, and here wefound quite a collection of boats, so picturesque that Mr. Pennellwas put ashore to sketch them and got caught in a heavyshower. Amongst these boats was a charming house-boat ofmoderate dimensions, with a black hull and a white house built A Summer Voyage. 177 upon it. As house-boats interest us just now we had thecuriosity to peep inside as we passed, and saw a very tidy littledwelli
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. pcniche will stop, you may besure, on every one of its future voyages. At a place called Le Chatelet there is a lock, and here wefound quite a collection of boats, so picturesque that Mr. Pennellwas put ashore to sketch them and got caught in a heavyshower. Amongst these boats was a charming house-boat ofmoderate dimensions, with a black hull and a white house built A Summer Voyage. 177 upon it. As house-boats interest us just now we had thecuriosity to peep inside as we passed, and saw a very tidy littledwelling of several well-furnished and orderly rooms. This isthe floating residence of the admiral of the dredging boats, andin this way he inspects the work done in different parts of theriver, on which he has his own home everywhere. At Le Chatelet there were picturesque houses on the shorewith roofs of thatch and moss, and some quaint balconies. Toconsole Mr. Pennell for being taken away from these by the in-exorable tug, I promised him other thatched houses on the ^si_li -J— A House-boat. Lower Saone, but I doubt if he will find anything quite so is such a torture to him to be dragged past interesting placesthat I am obliged, at times, to lure him on with promises thatmay not be quite fulfilled. At Seurre, which is a town of some importance, the houseshave quite a different character, indeed Seurre does not resembleany village or town that we have hitherto seen. They remindone of Holland and even of England. They are of red brick,and some of them are both tall and ugly. There is a gauntbrick building with two wings near the bridge. This is not outof keeping here, and gives a sort of grim dignity to the place. N 178 The Saonc. This town has a punning motto to its arms, Loyale etSeurre. Its history goes back to Roman antiquity, but there itbecomes cloud). In the middle ages it was besieged severaltimes, and twice in the seventeenth century. As the town hadtaken the
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