A year and a day in the East, or, Wanderings over land and sea

Montauban Eliot Mrs

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• Montauban
• India

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• Langue: English
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IGIFT OFXX
.jj/AND AYEAR DAY
IN
THE EAST;
OK,
OVER LAND AND SEA.WANDERINGS
BY MRS. ELIOT MONTAUBAN.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
ANDLONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1846.LONDON :
Printed A.by SPOTTISWOODE,
New.Street-Square.CONTENTS.
CHAP.
-I. PARIS. MARSEILLES. MALTA 1
- -II. MALTA. ALEXANDRIA. CAIRO 15
III. THE DESERT. SUEZ. RED SEA. BOMBAY 34
IV. FROM BOMBAY THROUGHJOURNEY GUZZERAT
-TOAND DELHI 51RAJPOOTANA,
V. FROM THROUGH THE PROTECTED SIKHDELHI,
- - -TO UMBALLA 70STATES,
VI. FROM UMBALLA TO THROUGHLOODIANAH,
- -THE PROTECTED SlKH STATES 86
VII. VOYAGE DOWN THE SUTLEJ AND INDUS,
-THROUGH SCINDE TO BOMBAY 111
VIII. FROM BOMBAY TO ALEXANDRIA. MALTA TO
SOUTHAMPTON. PARIS. MARSEILLES.
- -NAPLES 128
-IX. ROME AND FLORENCE 143
X. FLORENCE. VENICE. THE TYROL. BA-
-VARIA 157
XI. AUGSBURG. WURTEMBERG. DARMSTADT.
-FRANKFORT. THE RHINE 178
XII. -NEAR BOPPART ON THE RHINE 192MARIENBERG,
4923U,YEAR AND DAY IN THEA EAST,
CHAPTEE I.
PARIS. MARSEILLES. MALTA.
IN Pariswe commenced our from184-, journey
to aMarseilles. The railroad passes through
fertile and cultivated to Orleans. Thecountry
driver of the could dole
malle-poste hardly
forth minutes of time more re-twenty precious
than the conductor of our Dili-luctantly surly
we thewhengence, stopped following morning
to breakfast at a ancientNevers, dismal,dirty,
situated on the bank of the Loire.town, right
The road crosses the river on Nevers
quitting
a Atof arches.by heavy bridge twenty eight
in the we reached Moulins : it is situatedevening
on the and a cheerfultown.Allier, apparently busy,2 MOULINS. LYONS.
The of the women ispeasant veryhead-gear
and indescribable in ; somethinggrotesque shape
a of Turkish fixed tobetween couple slippers,
a and a meta-each side of round canoecrown,
into a bonnet.morphosed
In Guide-book the Hotel d'AllierMurray's
"" Tois described as and moderate.very good,
"
I De non est dis-this can answer,only gustibus
Moderate it is save in dirtindeed,putandum"
fareand and it abounds in odours vile thefleas, ;
and attendance bad.was indifferent,
our second in aWe performed night-journey
a Paris or rather asmall like coucou,diligence,
andsort of in which fivebox,square grown-up
of man and womankind werespecimensgoodly
as far as Macon. Not havingtightly packed,
mesmeric of with thethe shut,faculty eyesseeing
no account of the till weI can give scenery ap-
and summerthe residencebirth-placeproached
ofLa the which isMartine, country surrounding
and cultivated.flat well
10 A.M. we started forAt half-past Lyons;
andthe steamer was small dirty, bearing cargoes
ex-of merchandise. The thepassengers (with
of our wereselves) veryception distinguished
of their na-
unprepossessing specimens respective
istions. The on the banks of the Saone
scenery