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DIFFERENT ROUTES FROM LONDON TO PARIS.

By Calais per

steam-boat

Boulogne by do.

Miles.

292

A pleasant day's sail down the Thames
across the Channel. Hotels at Calais;
The 'Royal,' (an English house ;) Des-
sein's (French) Hotel Bourbon, &c.
Hotels at Boulogne: D'Orleans, (English)
d'Angleterre; du Nord, &c.

do. by Dover 257 Pass through Canterbury; see the Cathedral; Becket's shrine, &c.

251

Dieppe by
Brighton

Havre by
Brighton

Havre by

Southampton 315

301

Hotel at Dover : The Ship.' See the Castle, Landing-place of Cæsar, Shakspeare Cliff, &c.

[Note. By crossing to Boulogne instead of
Calais, from Dover, you avoid a dull ride
of 30 miles. There are two routes to the
capital; take that by Amiens, and look
into the Cathedral.]

Go the lower road by the Seine to Paris.
Rouen Cathedral, St, Ouen.

Fine harbor at Havre: Hotel d'Angleterre
Steam-boat to Rouen and Paris.

Stop at Southampton; Netley Abbey
Portsmouth; Isle of Wight.

Ostend 331 By Dunkirk, Lisle, &c., to Paris.

FRANCE.

PARIS.

PARIS TO SWITZERLAND AND ITALY.

The Louvre
The Tuileries
The Palais
Royal
The Luxembourg
The Panthéon
Notre Dame
St. Sulpice.
St. Roch
Abbaye St.
Martin
The Place
Vendûine

Garden of
Plants.
Royal Library
Champs Elysées]
Arc de l'Etoile

Bois de Bou-
logne

Chambre des
Députés

Miles (See Reichard's Itinerary of France, Galignani's or Plantas's Paris. Galignani's Book and Reading Rooms, are No. 18 Rue Vivienne, where the American and other papers, list of strangers, &c., may be seen, and other information obtained.)

Hotels: Meurice's, in the Rue Rivoli is the most fashionable and expensive; Hotel de Lille et D'Albion,' opposite the Palais Royal, a good house frequented by the English; Hotel du Portugal, Rue du Mail; 'Bellevue ;'Brighton;' Congrès;' Rue Rivoli.*

Presuming Paris to have been already visited, you will remember seasonably to get your passport visé by the different Ambassadors of the countries through which you intend to pass, viz. the Imperial and Sardinian Ambassadors, the Minister of the Swiss Cantons, the Pope's Nuncio, and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs and Police. This will probably occupy three days, which time can be agreeably divided between the Cabinet de Lecture the Gallery of the Louvre, and the ex-Musée Charles X., the Bibliothèque Royale, Conservatoire des Arts et des Métiers, Jardin des Plantes and Museum, the Tuileries garden lounge, and the Theatres.

If any length of time be devoted to Paris

it will be advisable to remove from the

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For the peculiar merits of these and other hotels, see the Paris Guide Books. Meurice's in doubtless the best for those who do not speak French.

Opéra Francais

Théatre Fran

cais Variétés, &c., &c.

Concerts Musard
Hotel de Ville
Val de Grace

Les Invalides

Les Gobelins

Sèvres Porce-
lain
St. Cloud
Versailles

Les Trianons

By
DIJON
to
BESANCON.

SWITZER

LAND. BALE

or BASEL

Cathedral
Town Hall

BADEN

Miles. hotel to some appartemens meublés, which
may be had for forty francs a month. Al-
though there is, in fact, no half price at the
Theatres, you can always buy return-checks
at the doors for various prices; so you can
also sell your own if you do not wish to
stay out the whole entertainments.
not drink much iced water lest *****.
to St. Cloud and Versailles in a coucou
you will see life and save expense. They
always ply on the Quai by the Pont Louis
XV. But, gentle reader, as Paris is only
a link in the chain, let us on.*

245

Do

Go

A place of renown, worth exploring-old
Burgundian Capital.

An ancient fortified town, finely situated.
Environs picturesque. It contains Roman
antiquities. A Diligence runs from Paris
to this place whence it will convey you to
Lausanne, Neufchâtel, or Geneva.

(See Ebel's Switzerland and Atlas.) 40 An excellent city, finely situated on the Rhine, over which is a bridge 280 feet long. The Cathedral and Town Hall are worthy of notice. The Trois Rois is an excellent Hotel, but generally very full. From this place you cannot continue posting, but must hire horses as after mentioned.

40 Situated in a valley, possesses fine warm baths, which are considered very bracing,

+ In proceeding to Switzerland and Italy, you may take the route named below, or that by way of Lyons or Geneva, See Memoranda,' or the quickest and cheapest) by Lyons and Marseilles, and thence by steamboat to Genoa and Naples, returning by the Simplon through Switzerland.

ZURICH

Lake of Zurich

Hotel de Ville Arsenal

Public Granary

The churches

The Orphan
House

The Library

Caroline College

RAPPERSWYL

WESEN
by
GLARUS

to

Tour in Switzerland.

27

Miles. particularly for females, and are much fre

18

quented on that account.

The Bridge, Lake, and Walks will engage your attention. L'Epée is a delightful Hotel close to the Lake, along the banks of which are some beautiful rides and walks. There is always a great conflux of company here in the season, and this Inn is the great resort, but it is certainly not cheap. At this place, as well as at all the principal towns in the country, you can hire a good sociable, which closes when necessary, and will carry four persons and a servant on the box, for which you pay about eighteen francs a day, and three for the driver. This will travel at the rate of thirty-five miles per day and more but you must pay the same for his return, so that it will be advisable to trace your route so as to enable you to discharge him not far from his home. They generally start early in the morning, and rest three hours in the middle of the day, thus making two long stages.

18 A delightful place, with an excellent Inn close to the Lake and Bridge. The drive to this place along the Zürich See is truly picturesque, the Lake being studded with towns and villages. This would be a fit place for a repose of a few days.

20 Another delightful place, where there is a comfortable and reasonable Inn at the end of the Lake of Wallenstadt. This excur

LINTHAL

and return to WESEN.

WALLENSTADT.

PFEFFERS.

COIRE OF CHUR

VIA MALA BY
The SPLUGEN

ZUG.

ZUGER SEE Or
LAKE OF ZUG,

RIGHI KULM

40

Miles. sion may be omitted if pressed for time: but it may be made in one day, starting early. It is a fine drive through mountain scenery of great beauty. There is a curious bridge over the Linth. Glarus is a large manufacturing town on the Linth, and a place of pilgrimage. From Wesen you may continue your route up the lake to Wallenstadt. There is no carriage road, but there is a Passage Boat Daily which takes you for 2 fr. Thence you may continue your journey to the Baths and Monasteries of Pfeffers, which would detain you six hours; afterwards to Coire, in German Chur, half a league from the Rhine; thence by the Via Mala, across the new road, over the Splugen to Como. You may post from Coire. The road is excellent, through mountain-passes of the utmost sublimity, meriting its Italian cognomen of Via Mala, from the circumventing horrors. This is the nearest way into Italy through Switzerland; but in pursuing the Route here given for exploring more of Switzerland, you must proceed from Wesen to Zug.

40 A curious old town at the head of the Lake.

Here you take a boat to the end of the Zuger See, as the Lake is called; and on landing you can hire horses to ascend the Righi Kulm, (see Keller's Panorama,) where you obtain a magnificent view of the greater part of Switzerland; descending on the

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