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Excerpt from A Year and a Day in the East: Or, Wanderings Over Land and Sea
At four o'clock, on the 4th of August, we started for Avignon, by the steamer. The scenery on the Rhone is very interesting; it is a noble, bounding river, but its navigation is ren dered difficult by the rapidity of the current and the shifting sand-banks. Here and there the ruins of an old baronial castle may be seen upon the heights; but Old Father Rhine. Maintains his superiority in many points.
The steamer passes the ancient towns of Vienne, Tournon, and Valence, where the sus pension bridge is one of the handsomest on the Rhone. Pont St. Esprit, with twenty-six arches, is said to be the largest stone bridge in the world.
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