France


Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion (1766) by Tobias George Smollett

Travelllers bound to the southern parts of France generally embark in the coche d 'eau at Lyons and glide down this river with great velocity, passing a great number of towns and villages on each side, where they find ordinaries every day at dinner and supper. In good weather there is no danger in this method of travelling, till you come to the Pont St Esprit; where the stream runs through the arches with such rapidity that the boat is sometimes overset. But those passengers who are under any apprehension are landed above bridge and taken in again after the boat has passed just in the same manner as at London Bridge. The boats that go up the river are drawn against the stream by oxen which swim through one of the arches of this bridge the driver fitting between the horns of the foremost beast.
Quotations
 Chapter 11 
Oh! That we had such weather here as they had at Udolpho, or at least in Tuscany and the south of France!
 Chapter 14 
“I never look at it,” said Catherine, as they walked along the side of the river, “without thinking of the south of France.”
 Chapter 25 
Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the south of France might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented.
 

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