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Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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I strolled along by those pretty okl wallsand bastions, under the pleasant trees which shadow them, and the grey oldgabled houses, from which you look down on the gay new city, and busyports and piers stretching into the shining sea, dotted with a hundred whitesails or black smoking steamers, and bounded by the friendly lines of thebright English shore. There are few prospects more charming than thefamiliar view from those old French walls—few places where young childrenmay play, and ruminating old age repose more pleasantly, than on thosepeaceful rampart gardens. The route to Paris by way of Boulogne hasthis advantage—the boats are in immediate connection with the train.There is usually half an hour or more after the arrival of the boat fromFolkestone before the train leaves for Paris; tliis interval can be usefullyemployed in the buffet which adjoins the landing-place from the boats,where a moderately good cuisine helps to stimukite tlie appetite awakenedby the sea air. 3^ i:?.^
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PARIS. Paris is beyond all question the handsomest city in the world. To itsarchitectural beauty must be added the charm of foliage, grouped statuary,splendid triumphal arches, and magnificently planned open spaces, thewhole combining to form an effect that is absolutely unique. There aremany who visit Paris for the first time whose leisure for sight-seeing is verylimited. To them it is of the first importance to know how they can seethe special sights of Paris, and carry away with them a clear general idea ofits most prominent features. It is not too much to say that the first specialcharacteristic of Paris is its Boulevards, and the reason why this is so is notfar to seek. Paris has no private gardens, using this expression in its widegeneral sense. The houses are architecturally beautiful, but they are con-structed for six or eight families, each in its own flat or portion of a flat,and they have to find their air, their exercise, and their outdoor life in theopen, carefully planne

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