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Antwert to Dinant.
1897.
July 12.
  Clear with warm sun and strong, cool, dry air very in-
vigorating and refreshing.
 To Dinant by rail, 10.20 A.M. - [blank space] P.M.
 Antwerp to Brussels 27 1/2 miles.
 Brussles to Namur 35         "
 Namur to Dinant    17         "
 Total distance 79 1/2 miles.
 Country for first few miles flat, exceedingly fertile,
under high cultivation, divided into small holdings, with a-
bundance of shade trees, many small towns and houses every-
where. Next, a range of hills of moderate elevation covered
with unbroken forest which extended for miles fin every direc-
tion, the trees chiefly oaks and beeches with a good many
larches, Norway spruces and Scotch pines and a few birches.
Then the valley of the Meuse with broad fields of grain near
the river and further back high ridges, in places rocky and
precipitous, in others steep slopes covered with young forest
or fields of ripening grain. Most of the woods seen to-day
were evidently planted.
 Hotel de Tete d'Or. Dinant, Belgium.
 A quiet, pretty inn with an inner court filled with flow-
ers and behind this a terraced garden with narrow foot path
leading upward by easy grades amid dense shrubbery of lilacs
sumacs, elders, and hobble bushes and through narrow fissures
walled in by ivy-covered rocks, reaching finally the top of