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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VT. FRENCH RAILWAYS. -- FRENCH WOMEN. THE FINE AND THE UNCOMFORTAELE. -- PARLEY ENTERS PARIS. After having seen the Lions of Rouen, and retired to bed fatigued in body, but not wearied, the morning saw me, at an early hour, on the Paris and Rouen Railroad. The French railways are, in many respects, superior to the English, especially in the accommodation of second-class passengers, who sit in good close carriages, with cushions on the seats, and have plenty of room. I remember well enough how we used to be cramped up in our old stage-coaches, and I do not think that our railroad seats are broadenough for comfort; but here I found everything roomy and comfortable. And now I began to see the country. It was, indeed, very different to that of England. No trim hedge-rows; no elegant little paddocks, surrounded by elms and beeches; no banks upon which the violet nestled, or on which cowslips breathed their sweet spring fragrance. No clean and comfortable-looking farmhouses, with dovecots topping the lofty trees; no cheerful-looking cottages; no ivy-mantled towers, or pointing spires, or quiet parsonages; no pretty villas or snug nooks where solitude might love to dwell -- homesteads of retired affluence. There were none of these; but in their stead were blank plain and forest; the forests covering large spaces, with dwarf trees, and the plains merely intersected by paths or ugly roads; while the land devoted to agricultural purposes seemed ill partitioned and ill cultivated; in many places covered by weeds, and in very many instances tilled by women, whose appearance and manners arc very far f...

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