Wanderings by the Loire (1833) (14757848326)

Identifier: wanderingsbyloir00ritc (find matches)
Title: Wanderings by the Loire
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Paris : Rittner and Goupil
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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THE GARDEN OF FRANCE. 35 It led into a room resembling our own, furnished withfour or five beds, all occupied by wearied travellers buriedin profound sleep. Ah ! muttered we, this is noden of robbers ! We ought to have concluded, fromthe very absence of the means, or shew of security, thatthere was nothing to apprehend! and so saying, wetumbled into an excellent bed, and after a little moral-ising on the blessings of poverty, passed quickly intothe land of dreams. The town of Amboise consists of a heap of narrowand confused streets, built at the base of a hill, whichsweeps down towards the river, terminating abruptlyin perpendicular cliffs, both in front and at the sides.On the brow of this hill, next the Loire, stands thechateau, flanked by two enormous towers, carried upfrom the base of the cliffs. The origin of the chateauis supposed to have been a fort built by Csesar on thehill; and in collateral proof of this fact are shewn somesubterranean vaults by the side of the hill, near t