The Mount Narrative of a Visit to the Site of a Gaulish City on Mont Beuvray: With a Description of the Neighboring City of Autun (Classic Reprint) by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from The Mount Narrative of a Visit to the Site of a Gaulish City on Mont Beuvray: With a Description of the Neighboring City of Autun Mount Beuvray - Dejeuner with a learned Antiquary - His House - His Love of the Past and Dislike of Newspapers - We travel together to the Mount - The Village of Monthelon - Story of a Saint - The Chateau where she lived - The Church of Monthelon - Romanesque country Churches - Anecdotes of a Priest - Fishpond made useless by the Invasion of a Plant - Tower of Vautheau - An Antiquary's Fancy - The Fountain of the Wivre - A Legend. On the western side of the valley or basin of Autun, rises a massive hill, about i,800 feet above the level of the plain, and 2,700 above the sea-level. It plays a great part in all effects of sunset, being remote eugh to take fine blue or purple color in certain conditions of the atmosphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.