First Impressions on a Tour upon the Continent In the summer of 1818 through parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, the borders of Germany, and a part of French Flanders

I returned to dinner at _l'hotel des Balances_, intending to accept Madame C.'s polite invitation to take tea with her, at eight o'clock; but first I accompanied Sir F. and Mada...

Crossing a majestic mountain beyond Modena, we were shewn the Devil's Bridge (_note_ B.), three hundred feet above the river. We ourselves looked proudly down upon it, from our...

The next morning we drove to Moncallier, about six miles from Turin, to call upon Madame N----, (an old acquaintance of our friend Mr. T.'s,) for whom we had letters. The coachm...

We saw the peasants making ropes by the side of the road; one man carried a distaff in his hand, much bigger than a large stable broom. I bought of a _villageoise_ at Macon one...

We stopped to take breakfast at Rolle, a neat little town, where at the humble inn (_la Couronne_) we hailed with great satisfaction the comforts of cleanliness and domestic ord...

As to the personal charms of the women here, they appeared to me to be very mediocre; we remarked three or four pretty faces, but not one that had any claim to superior beauty....

Bonaparte on his return from Elba occupied this apartment; and the postillion who drove us was one of those who rendered the same service to him: we had also a pair of the same...

Laon is built upon an abrupt and rocky eminence, shaded by trees, and commanding a very extensive bird's-eye prospect of the surrounding country. There was a high appearance of...

We had not advanced far, ere the country opened, if possible, into an increased blaze of beauty. Close to us were well-wooded mountains; on the left, vineyards trained in the gr...

At Cigliano we took a _dejeuné_ at _L'Albergo Reale_, and while it was preparing, stood in the open gallery on the outside of the house, gathering from a vine, which overshadowe...

The face of the country here again changed for the worse, relapsing into the same flat and monotonous appearance as at first, and it continued thus until within a mile of Abbevi...

Mr. B.'s illness increased to a height of aguish shudderings and total exhaustion, which prevented our attempting to proceed farther than Martigny, where we put up at an inn cal...

TO ONE OF THE MOST VALUED FRIENDS OF HER EARLIEST YEARS, THE RIGHT HON. JOHN TREVOR, THE AUTHOR INSCRIBES THE FOLLOWING LITTLE WORK, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF AFFECTIONATE RESPECT...

Passing through a small village, we saw several groups of the peasantry, mingled with the Austrian soldiery, all dressed in their gayest costume (it being Sunday evening), and w...

The parish church of Trasqueras is an object of high astonishment; we passed it, not without adding our individual tribute of wonder. It is built upon the topmost verge of a bar...

The amphitheatre (lately built by Coenonica) is highly magnificent, and of immense proportions, chiefly appropriated to the celebration of the _naumachia_, or naval tournament....

Happening to mention the circumstance of the extraordinary growth of hair, among the women about Payerne, we were informed that it was almost all false. The _paysannes_ have an...

There is something awfully striking in the sudden devastation occasioned by the summer storms, too frequent in these climates. In the same garden where at noon you had been walk...