Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France

It being a matter of the first importance to the valetudinarian to adopt every precaution against the atmospheric effects to which he is necessarily exposed in his transit from...

There are but few _Cold Saline Springs_ in France, viz: those of Andabre or Camares in the department of Aveyron; Jouhe, dep: Jura; Pouillon, dep: Landes; Niederbronn, dep: Lowe...

THE CASTLE OF AMBOISE is a noble structure of great antiquity; and from the beauty of its elevated situation on the southern banks of the Loire, and the drive to it from Tours,...

In the woods and forests are found from one hundred and fifty to two hundred plants; amongst which may be mentioned the genera _Amentaceae_, which flower and blossom. In the mon...

_______________________________________ R. F. |R. F. |R. F. |R. F. | | | 80 212.00|51 146.75|23 83.75| 5 20.75 79 209.75|50 144.50|22 81.50| 6 18.50 78 207.50|49 142.25|21 79.25...

Aside from the correction of obvious typographical errors, the text has not been modernized; the original (some archaic) spellings have been retained (Maderia for Madiera; marjo...

The following is an analysis of the _Grande-Grille_;--free carbonic acid, carbonate of Soda, carbonate of Lime, carbonate of Magnesia, muriate of Soda, sulphate of Soda, oxide o...

---+-----------+-----------------+----------------------------------- DAYS OF THE MONTH. | FAHRENHEIT'S | THERMOMETER. | | DIRECTION | | OF THE WIND. | | | STATE OF THE WEATHER....

+-----------------+--------------------------- WINES. |PLACE. |CHARACTER. -------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------- | | Verzy, Verzenay, Mailly, }...

The _city of Tours_,--which contains upwards of 28,000 inhabitants,--is at all times most abundantly supplied with the common necessaries and the luxuries of life. It has two ma...