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former. It has two beautiful and very steep hills, 
between which the Sadne winds, which add much to 
its appearance. 
April 5. —I broke off here some time ago, and left 
a space which I intended to fill up the first spare mo- 
ment, by telling you what I saw at Lyons; what kind 
of a town it is; how I might possibly have seen Mont 
Blane from it had it not been a rainy day; how I 
called on Seringe,! saw the little botanical garden, 
took notice of many little contrivances, particularly 
the way he keeps the aquatic plants wet; how he went 
with me to the Académie of Lyons, the branch of the 
University of Paris. . . . I could also describe the 
manufacture of velvet, which I also saw, but for all 
these things time does not permit ; a good opportunity 
of sending to New York occurring to-morrow morn- 
ing. So I must leave the hiatus. . . 
Iwas called this morning at a nner before four ; 
went down to the steamboat, which was to start 
promptly at five, but which did not until half an hour 
later, — a narrow comfortless vessel, with no awning 
or protection for the decks, in which point, and in the 
lack of all comfortable arrangements, it is just like 
every other steamboat I have seen since I left New 
York, those between Liverpool and Glasgow alone 
excepted. The Rhone, even at Lyons and far below, 
merits pretty well the epithets applied to it, where 
it “leaves the bosom of its nursing lake,” — “ the blue 
rushing of the arrowy Rhone,” for it is rapid the 
whole course. At Lyons it has a blue tint like that 
of the ocean, though not so deep. Well, we were off 
at length, and aided by the current we made very 
ts these sera Seringe, 1775-1856 ; professor at Lyons. Seringia 
named for 
