How We Saw Belgium, the Rhine, the Meuse, and Paris, in Fifteen Days Paperback - 2009
by Thomas William Newton
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. RAILWAY TO RHENISH PRUSSIA ?UP THE RHINE ? THE MEUSE ?NAMUR TO PARIS. RAILWAY TO RHENISH PRUSSIA. Morning sunshine fell on traceried gables, spires, towers, and bridges?tinged with gold emerald lawns and alleys of waving trees?suffused calm canals, till their slow-moving craft glided in dreamy haze, ?as we looked reluctantly for the last time on the old-world glories of the City of Brussels. Bound for Rhenish Prussia and the Rhine, we set off on our journey with all the exhiliration naturally consequent on the near prospect of visiting a scene of legendary interest and natural beauty. Again upon the railway, in brief space we reached Malines; its numerous lines and intolerable 46 RAILWAY TO RHENISH PRUSSIA. confusion causing us to hazard a conjecture, what here might bafall that venerable London lady who at all hours of the day is found travelling in the wrong omnibus. After great delay, enlivened occasionally by despairing rushes through wrong doorways, and hand-to-hand skirmishes with misunderstandable porters, we found ourselves at last fairly seated in new carriages, and speeding along the eastern branch line, which goes direct to the banks of the Rhine at Cologne. On and on, in the bright breezy morning?fleeter than fleetest courser?with twice the velocity of that mad steed which bore Mazeppa through the wolf-haunted forest?on and on sped the engine; while the carriages were filled with chattering, laughing, and smoking Germans and Flemings, who wore, at the girdles of their blue frocks, tobacco-pouches large enough to hold a day's provision for a stalwart excursionist: and?spite of Cowper's deprecation of The noxious weed, that banishes for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours, ? the female travellers?dressed chiefly in the neatest co..
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- Title How We Saw Belgium, the Rhine, the Meuse, and Paris, in Fifteen Days
- Author Thomas William Newton
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 60
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher General Books
- Date 2009
- ISBN 9780217849937 / 0217849938
- Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.14 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.36 cm)
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