This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...only novelty, as we were, may be equally delighted by a most agreeable walk. One cannot feel surprised to see how many of our countrymen have established themselves with their families at Dinan, when one observes such attractions at every turn, and when to all the agremens is added the fact of cheap living, --houserent ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...only novelty, as we were, may be equally delighted by a most agreeable walk. One cannot feel surprised to see how many of our countrymen have established themselves with their families at Dinan, when one observes such attractions at every turn, and when to all the agremens is added the fact of cheap living, --houserent, &c, being very reasonable. Almost all the best houses in and out of the town belong to the English; there is lively and pleasant society, and civility amongst the townspeople. Brittany is famous for its fountains. There is no end to the traditions respecting them all 206 LA FONTAINE MERVEILLEUSE. over the country: "La Fontaine Merveilleuse," properly so called, where so many wonderful scenes passed in the mysterious times of Arthur and his knights, is supposed to exist in the forest of Broceliande; that forest which, to identify at the present day, has cost so much labour and pains to the poets, antiquaries, and historians of France! That forest sacred to Merlin and the fairy Viviana, and a host of fairies beside, who filled it with wonders, and provided adventures for the chivalry of ages. The mystery of mineral springs has always been a fertile source of superstition. Even in our own country, at least in Wales, the miraculous powers of holy wells are still believed, not only by the peasantry, but by persons more enlightened; we cannot, therefore, feel astonished at the speculations to which they gave rise in times of less research; we can scarcely contemplate the wonders of Nature without awful surprise, even though all the laws and secret causes of apparent wonders have been revealed, and we must sympathize with our ancestors when they attributed all to superhuman interference. The following fragment is extracted from M. du T...
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