Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix

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But, indeed, for hours afterwards we saw as little as if we had been in a railroad train. We were conscious only of the great hills to be climbed, and of our incessant trouble w...

It was as we expected. When we had eaten a dinner worthy of the company, we were unwilling to ride farther. We could and would not leave Abbeville that night.--J---- was silent...

We could not have paid them a greater compliment. The next minute the route-form was passed from one to the other, and by the name of each town was written the name of a commerc...

Not far from Melun we met four bicyclers. Much has been said about the “freemasonry of the wheel.” There is a pleasant suggestion of good-fellowship in the expression, but I thi...

The castle, closed about with high walls, stood gloomily apart, and overlooked the town. A narrow hilly street, lined with little houses, led to its heavy gateway, against and a...

Gone were the troubles of the morning, forgotten with the first kilometre. And the country was as gay and smiling as at an earlier hour it had been sad and mournful.--We were tr...

We introduced ourselves as fellow-cyclers who had ridden all the way from Calais. But the agent was calmly indifferent, and scarcely civil.--Where should we find the national ro...

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | Towns. |Distance in| Hotels. | Remarks on Roads, &c. | | |Kilometres.| | | |--------------...

| _Paris_ | | | | | _Tours_ | 230 | | | | _St. Maure_ | 44 | _De la Poste._| | | _Châtellerault_ | 33 | _L’Univers._ | | | _Poitiers_ | 33 | _Trois | | | | | Pilliers._ | | | _C...