Change of air and scene : a physician's hints with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland and seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / by Alphonse Donne.

  • Alfred François Donné
Date:
1872
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Credit: Change of air and scene : a physician's hints with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland and seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / by Alphonse Donne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    found at Divonne, where everything is well and intelligently arranged without meanness and petty economy. The village of Divonne is not handsome ; it has none of the charm and coquetry of Swiss villages, no elegant villas, no pretty chalets, but is excellently well situated for promenades and picturesque excursions. Is there anything more enchanting than the borders of the Lake of Geneva, this grand park fifteen leagues long by ten leagues wide, with its peaceful habitations so well ensconced in their groves of verdure, where peace and happiness seem to have their home ? Its beautiful towns of Nyon, Lausanne, and Vevey, and the lake for a sheet of water; here are promenades for every day, on foot, on horseback, in carriages, through the lovehest roads shaded by gigantic walnut-trees, chestnut-trees, and poplars, here and there broken by the greenest valleys, and with a horizon formed of the snowy peaks of the Alps, lying at the foot of their king, Mont Blanc. And if you wish to make longer excursions, the Swiss rail- ways, whose station is at a distance of six kilometres [rather more than three EngHsh miles], at the castle of Coppet, will in a few hours carry you to every point, the most famous or most picturesque spots in the very heart of that region, which will ever be the admiration of poets and lovers of nature.