CHAPTER I.
GENEVA TO ANNECY. ---- CHATEAU DU ING.----
LAKE OF ANNECY.
H AViNG made a tour over the Semplon
into Piedmont, we returned to Geneva tlie
24th of October, 1820, where we passed the
winter ; and on the 15th of May, 1821, we
left that city to spend the summer in Savoy.
We first proposed to remain some weeks
at Chateau Duing, an ancient mansion on
the lake of Annecy, to examine the country
in the vicinity. The road crosses the
river Arve about one mile south of Geneva,
over a handsome stone bridge, erected by
the French. After passing through the
town of Carouge, formerly in Savoy, but
now belonging to the repubiic of Geneva,
we began to ascend gradually by the side
of the Great Saleve, a mountain that ranges
on the left for about nine miles, presenting
a nearly perpendicular face of stratified
limestone, rising from 2500 to 3000 feet
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