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Switzerland, the South of France, and the Pyrenees in M.DCCC.XXX.

Switzerland, the South of France, and the Pyrenees in M.DCCC.XXX.

Inglis, Henry David

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ISBN10: 1150599448
ISBN13: 9781150599446
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Original Publisher: Printed for Constable and Co. Subjects: Switzerland France Pyrenees (France and Spain) France, Southern Pyrenees History / Europe / Western History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Travel / Europe / Switzerland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 20 CHAPTER II. DESCENT OF THE RHONE. Scenery of the Rhone between Lyons and Vienne -- The Cate Roti Vineyard -- Commerce on the Rhone -- Indications of Heat, and Discomforts -- Dauphiny and jLan- guedoc -- The Hermitage Vineyard -- Valence -- $t Peray Vineyards -- Sufferings from Heat -- Accidents -- Dangerous Navigation of the Rhone -- The Rapid of the font de St Esprit -- Scenery -- Approach to Avignon, and Arrival -- -- More Accidents. At five in the morning, the boat left the river-side at Lyons, and it was promised by the master, that, in thirteen hours, we should be in Avignon -- a distance, by water, of not less than a hundred and fifty miles. It was a singularly beautiful morning. The sun had but newly arisen, and was, as yet, ineffectual; only the balmy mildness of a summer morning was felt; and a slight air from the south, scarcely cool in itself, was woo'd into sufficient strength, by the rapid motion of the boat, to lift the streamer from the mast-head, and to be refreshing to the ungloved hand or uncovered brow. On such a delicious morning, how could the voyage be otherwise than charming? But the captain's prediction at parting, Nous aurons de la chaleur aiyourd'hui, proved too well founded. Between Lyons and Vienne -- the first town of any consequence lying on the bank of the river -- we shot through a succession of the most cha...

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