2009, ISBN: 9781150234446

Subtitle: By a Route Never Before Performed, Being Along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne Through the Greater Part of Their Course General Books publication date: 2009Or… Mehr…

Subtitle: By a Route Never Before Performed, Being Along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne Through the Greater Part of Their Course General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1814Original Publisher: Gale, Curtis, and Fenner Subjects: FranceHistory / Europe / FranceTravel / Europe / France 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 Subtitle: By a Route Never Before Performed, Being Along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne Through the Greater Part of Their Course General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1814Original Publisher: Gale, Curtis, and Fenner Subjects: FranceHistory / Europe / FranceTravel / Europe / France 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: CHAP. IV. French Cottages. - Ludicrous Exhibition. - French Travellers. - Chaise de Post. - Posting in France. - Departure from Calais. - Beautiful Vicinity of Boulogne. Two days were amply sufficient to see all that Calais has to exhibit. After the first novelty is over, no place can please, except either by its intrinsic beauty, or the happy effect of habit. Calais has no such intrinsic charms, and I was not disposed to try the result of the latter. I accordingly resolved to proceed on my road; but, as the heat was excessive, deferred it till the evening. The exercise of the preceding night had produced an unpleasant ferment in my blood, attended by an external feeling of feverish heat and checked perspiration. Every traveller should be, in a degree, his own physician. I had recourse to a dip in the sea, and found immediate relief. Nothing, . indeed, is so instantaneous a remedy, either for violent fatigue, or any of the other effects following unusual exercise, as this simple specific. After a ride of sixty or seventy miles through the most dusty roads, and under the hottest sun of a southern Midsummer, I have been restored to my morning freshness by the cold bath. By the buildings which I observed to be going forward, I was led to a conclusion that Calais is a flourishing town; but I confess I saw Books, History~~General, Travels-through-the-South-of-France-and-in-the-interior-of-the-provinces-of-Provence-and-Languedoc-in-the-years-1807-and-1808~~Nathan-Pinkney, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 115023444X

[EAN: 9781150234446], Neubuch, [PU: GENERAL BOOKS 01/06/2012], New Book. Shipped from US This item is printed on demand.