tensive districts can only be entered by a
mnle-road. The great road from Lyons
to Chambery enters Savoy at Pont de
Beauvoisiii, and proceeds by the Gallery of
les Echelles, which may justly be regarded
as one of the greatest works of Napoleon :
it is described, chap. 5. This road is
joined by the road from Geneva at Chambery,
and is continued over Mount Cenis.
The Semplon road is continued along the
northern side of Savoy by the Lake of
Geneva. A new road is forming from
Annecy to 1’Hospital on the Isere, by
which the distance from Geneva to Mont
Cenis will be considerably shortened. From
Geneva there is a good carriage road to
Bonneville and Sallenclies. These roads
may all be safely travelled in an English
carriage, except that to l’Hôpital, which
is not yet finished. The other roads in
Savoy are mostly narrow and rough, and
can only be passed with horses or mules,
or in small cars. The inns, except on the
great roads, are wretched. To the state of
the roads and the inns it is, perhaps,
principally owing, that Savoy, a country
abounding in objects of great interest, and
rich in magnificent scenery beyond any
other part of Europe, has hitherto been so
little explored by the English, who content
themselves with following each other to
Chamouny, or pass along the great road to
Italy with all possible expedition.