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diff --git a/40238-h/40238-h.htm b/40238-h/40238-h.htm index 8a69173..9027d96 100644 --- a/40238-h/40238-h.htm +++ b/40238-h/40238-h.htm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe, by J. MacGregor - A Project Gutenberg eBook. @@ -233,46 +233,7 @@ ul.ulbullet {list-style-type: disc; line-height: 140%;} /* for TN items */ </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on -Rivers and Lakes of Europe, by John Macgregor - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe - -Author: John Macgregor - -Release Date: July 15, 2012 [EBook #40238] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A THOUSAND MILES IN THE ROB ROY *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, fh and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40238 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <a name="frontispiece" id="frontispiece"></a><a href="images/i_002a.jpg"><img src="images/i_002.jpg" width="600" height="373" alt="Rapids of the Reuss" title="Rapids of the Reuss" /> @@ -658,7 +619,7 @@ for a time, you can leave your boat at an inn—it will not be "eating its head off," like a horse; or you can send it home or sell it, and take to the road yourself, or sink into the dull old cushions -of the "Première Classe," and dream you are +of the "Première Classe," and dream you are seeing the world.</p> <p>With such advantages, then, and with good @@ -1286,7 +1247,7 @@ hidden by bushes or tall sedge. When talking singing, the chorus was far more energetic than harmonious, but then the Briton is at once the most timid and shy of mortal travellers, and the -most <i>outré</i> and singular when he chooses to be free.</p> +most <i>outré</i> and singular when he chooses to be free.</p> <p>The midday beams on a river in August are sure to conquer your fresh energies at last, and @@ -2075,7 +2036,7 @@ as the pink of fashion. He was learning French too, and was sentimental, so I gave him a very matter-of-fact book, and then he asked me to let him sit in the canoe while I was to paddle it down -the river to his home! The naïve simplicity of +the river to his home! The naïve simplicity of this request was truly refreshing, and if we had been sure of shallow water all the way, and yet not too shallow, it would perhaps have been @@ -2234,7 +2195,7 @@ Of course they recognised the canoe, and stopped to give her a hearty cheer, ending with a general chorus made up of the few English words of their vocabulary, "All r-r-r-r-ight, -Englishmánn!" "All r-r-r-r-ight, Englishmánn!"<a name="FNanchor_IX." id="FNanchor_IX."></a><a href="#Footnote_IX." class="fnanchor">[IX.]</a></p> +Englishmánn!" "All r-r-r-r-ight, Englishmánn!"<a name="FNanchor_IX." id="FNanchor_IX."></a><a href="#Footnote_IX." class="fnanchor">[IX.]</a></p> <p>The coincidence of these noisy but good-humoured people having been assembled in the @@ -3371,7 +3332,7 @@ they be related here, for it is only river travel and lake sailing that we are concerned with; while reference may be made to the Guide-books if you wish to hear this sort of thing: "Ulm, -lat. 97°, an old Cathedral (<i>a</i>) town, on two (§) +lat. 97°, an old Cathedral (<i>a</i>) town, on two (§) hills (see Appx.). Pop. 9763; situated †† on the Danube." At that I stop, and look into the water once more.</p> @@ -4397,7 +4358,7 @@ he pointed out the best hotel, and so the naval squadron advanced to the pier, led by the canoe. A gracious landlady here put my boat safe in the hotel coachhouse, and offered to give me the key -of the padlock, to make sure. In the <i>salle à +of the padlock, to make sure. In the <i>salle à manger</i> were some English friends from London, so now I felt that here was an end of lone wanderings among foreigners, for the summer stream @@ -6518,7 +6479,7 @@ the desirable information I required, but which he had not got, that is to say, the length, depth, and general character of the several rivers we proposed to navigate in connexion with streams less -"canalizé," so I had to begin again as usual, +"canalizé," so I had to begin again as usual, without any knowledge of the way.</p> <p>With rather an ill-tempered "adieu" to Mulhouse, @@ -6691,7 +6652,7 @@ Marshal at St. Helena concerning the Christian religion, a paper well worth reading, whoever spoke the words.</p> -<p>This Sunday being an annual village fête a +<p>This Sunday being an annual village fête a band played, and some very uncouth couples waltzed the whole day. Large flocks of sheep, following their shepherds, wandered over the @@ -6894,7 +6855,7 @@ last they put their wise heads together, filled up five separate printed forms, charged double fare, and the whole thing cost me just ninepence. Verily, the French are still overloaded with forms, -and are still in the straitwaistcoat of <i>système</i>. +and are still in the straitwaistcoat of <i>système</i>. The railway winds among green hills, while here and there a "fabrik," or factory, nestles in a valley, or illumines a hill-side at night with its @@ -7419,7 +7380,7 @@ we should call "Mozle." When a Frenchman speaks of "la Moselle," he puts an equal emphasis on each of the three syllables he is pronouncing;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[237]</a></span> whereas generally we Englishmen call this river -Mosélle.</p> +Mosélle.</p> <p>The name of a long river often indeed goes through changes as it traverses various districts @@ -8051,7 +8012,7 @@ sutlers' town, which springs up near every camp. Here is "Place Solferino," and there "Rue Malakhoff," where the sign of the inn is a Chinaman having his pigtail lopped off by a -Français. The camp is in the middle of a very +Français. The camp is in the middle of a very large plain, with plenty of dust and white earth, which "glared" on my eyes intensely, this being the hottest day I have experienced during the @@ -8117,7 +8078,7 @@ called <i>France Illustrated</i> is published at fourpence each number, with a map of the Department, several woodcuts of notable places or events, and a brief history of the principal towns, concluding -with a <i>résumé</i> of the statistics of the Department. +with a <i>résumé</i> of the statistics of the Department. A publication of this kind would, I think, be very useful in England; and for travellers especially, who could purchase at the @@ -8300,7 +8261,7 @@ have been in the Crimea call it thus), "<i>chaloupe</i>" "<i>navire</i>," "<i>schipp</i>" (Low German), "<i>yacht</i>" ("jacht"—Danish, "jaht," from "jagen," to ride quickly—properly a boat drawn by horses). -Several people have spoken of it as "<i>batteau à +Several people have spoken of it as "<i>batteau à vapeur</i>," for in the centre of France they have never seen a steamboat, but the usual name with the common people is "<i>petit batteau</i>" and among @@ -8485,19 +8446,19 @@ heavier than wood of the same strength, considering the strains which a boat must expect to undergo.</p> -<p>"La Ferté sous Jouarre" is the long name of +<p>"La Ferté sous Jouarre" is the long name of the next stopping-place. There are several towns -called by the name La Ferté (La Fortifié), which +called by the name La Ferté (La Fortifié), which in some measure corresponds with the termination <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[273]</a></span>"caster" or "cester" of English names. Millstones -are the great specialty of this La Ferté. +are the great specialty of this La Ferté. A good millstone costs 50<i>l.</i>, and there is a large exportation of them. The material has the very convenient property of not requiring to be chipped into holes, as these exist in this stone naturally.</p> -<p>At La Ferté I put the boat into a hayloft; +<p>At La Ferté I put the boat into a hayloft; how often it has occupied this elevated lodgings amongst its various adventures; and at dinner with me there is an intelligent and hungry bourgeois @@ -8508,7 +8469,7 @@ of everybody's doings, sayings, failings, and earnings. Some amusement, however, resulted from the collision of two gossips at our table of four guests, for while the one always harped upon -family tales of La Ferté, its local statistics, and +family tales of La Ferté, its local statistics, and the minute sayings of its people, the other kept struggling to turn our thoughts to shoes and slippers, for he was a commercial traveller with @@ -8633,7 +8594,7 @@ the "cling, cling" of the never idle blacksmith.</p> <p>This town of Meaux has a bridge with houses on it, and great mill-wheels filling up the arches as they used to do in old London-bridge. Pleasant -gardens front the river, and cafés glitter +gardens front the river, and cafés glitter there at night. These are not luxuries but positive necessaries of life for the Frenchman, and it is their absence abroad which—we believe—is one @@ -8993,9 +8954,9 @@ an hotel.</p> Britons from every Alp and cave of Europe flowing through its salons. Here are the gay streets, too white to be looked at in the sun, and the -<i>poupeé</i> theatres under the trees, and the dandies +<i>poupeé</i> theatres under the trees, and the dandies driving so stiff in hired carriages, and the dapper, -little soldiers, and the gilded cafés.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a></span></p> +little soldiers, and the gilded cafés.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a></span></p> <p>Yes, it is Paris—and more brilliant than ever!</p> @@ -10011,8 +9972,8 @@ for using trusses of straw, &c., fail after a few miles of rolling gravel and coarse ruts.</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_VII." id="Footnote_VII."></a><a href="#FNanchor_VII."><span class="label">[VII.]</span></a> The old Roman Ister. The name Donau is pronounced -"Doanou." Hilpert says, "Dönau allied to Dón and -Düna (a river)." In Celtic <i>Dune</i> means "river," and <i>Don</i> +"Doanou." Hilpert says, "Dönau allied to Dón and +Düna (a river)." In Celtic <i>Dune</i> means "river," and <i>Don</i> means "brown," while "<i>au</i>" in German is "island" (like the English "eyot"). </p><p> @@ -10323,7 +10284,7 @@ Character of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen. Sixth Edition. Price 6<i>s.</i></p> <p><i>LIKE UNTO CHRIST.</i> A New Translation of the -'<span class="smcap">De Imitatione Christi</span>,' usually ascribed to Thomas à +'<span class="smcap">De Imitatione Christi</span>,' usually ascribed to Thomas à Kempis. Beautifully printed on toned paper, with a Vignette, from an Original Drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 12mo. cloth extra, price 6<i>s.</i>; or, handsomely bound in calf @@ -10544,7 +10505,7 @@ Catalogue" and the "British Catalogue." One thick volume of 900 pages, half morocco, 45<i>s.</i></p> <p class="drcp">Like unto Christ. A new translation of the De Imitatione -Christi, usually ascribed to Thomas à Kempis—forming a volume of +Christi, usually ascribed to Thomas à Kempis—forming a volume of <i>The Gentle Life</i> Series. Small post 8vo. 6<i>s.</i></p> <p>The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character @@ -11651,388 +11612,6 @@ they refer to so as to not disrupt the flow of the text.</li> </ul> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe -on Rivers and Lakes of Europe, by John Macgregor - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A THOUSAND MILES IN THE ROB ROY *** - -***** This file should be named 40238-h.htm or 40238-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/2/3/40238/ - -Produced by Chris Curnow, fh and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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