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conld not possibly be avoided, I felt continual satisfaction and amusement, and the mformation
and experience wliich I gained I deemed a rich remuneration for my trouble.
I hope also that the reader, who has followed me through this little ramble, has not
thought the time wasted which he has devoted to it. My object in the detail has been
rather instruction, than that amusement of the lighter kind, commonly derived from
books of travels.
Nature has been more my study than men; and I have rather endeavoured to trace
the tremendous revolutions of the universe, and to mark their effects, than to enlarge
on those things which so frequently take place in civil society. I have not, however,
forgotten my species; their history, as far as it came in my way, I have concisely
given, and have with pleasure pourtrayed the happiness of simple and uncorrupted
society,—a happiness which, though it does not strike in description, and charm men
of dissipated manners, is congenial with our nature, and to the pursuit of which the
philosophic philanthropist ardently wishes to awaken mankind.
I N D E X
Î ARRANCEME
GENCRAL CHART OF PLACES CONNECTED WITH THE ROUTE FROM LYONS TO
LOMBARDY, &e.
PLATK IL {neil lop. !.)
LYONS.
This view is taken from the arsenal, beyond St. Jean's bridge. The caUiedral tlul bears its name, of which
only iwo towers and a part of the front are discernible, stands near the same spot; wlulst on the summit of the
nled the clmrch of De FourviSre, and the villages o momilain, in the baclc-ground, f St. Just and St. Foy
St distant hills.
PLATE III. {next to f . <2.)
A Q U E D U C T A T LYONS. BUILT BY T H E ROMANS.
PIATE IV. [NEILTOP. 23.)
P L A N OF LYONS.
PLATE V . {NERTTOP. 32.)
C A S C A D E AND LAKE OF NANTUA.
PLATE VL (next lo p. Si.)
CONTINUATION OF THE SAME LAKE,
Taking in the town of Nantua and the beautiful Lake Silan, the last of which Is sealed at the extremity of tlie
st distant mountains.
PLATE VIL {nfiHop.SS.)
REPRESENTATION OF THE ABOVE LAKE,
tlie right belong to some corn and saw mills, and may be deemed a pari of the vilUge of
town ol'Nantua shows itself between the two most distant mounUins.
The houses on
Charris, whilst the
PLATE VIIL (next to p. W.)
L O S S OF T H E RHONE.
Village of Coussy on the right, château and village of Beilegarde
The bridge is that of Coussy, which formerly served
in the description of the RhOne, is placed for Uie —-
tlie channel and disappearance of tlie river.
limit to France and S
of strangers who
t ele\-ated part of the same hill,
ivoy. The ladder, as mentioned
re desirous of minutely exploring
PLATK IX. (wit iop. 40.)
R E - A P P E A R A N C E OF T H E RHONE.
A view of the same bridge as plate VIII. but seen on the opposite side. Corn and saw mills o
worked by the Valsorene, ia torrent which throws itself into the Rh6ne. The most distant mountains. Savoy.