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Title: Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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m Ferney,omnibus four times daily in 1 hr. to (6 M.) Gex (p. 246). To Vernier, ten times dailv in 25 min. (from the Place des 22 Cantons,p. 241; fare 40 c). The line (comp. PI. C, B. 2; A, 1) runs via Les Dilicetand Les Charmilles. Beyond the hamlet of Chatelaine, with the TheatreVoltaire (now a store), we pass the favourite Bois des Freres (on the left).and reach the prettily situated village of Vernier. To THE Bois de la Batie. From the Qua! de la Poste (comp. PL A,B, 4) the line runs past the Abattoirs to the Pont de St. Georges over theArve. On the other bank a path ascends to the right to the Bois de laBatie (l/* M. from Geneva), a plateau covered with woods and meadows(several cafes), affording a fine survey of the town and environs. Theblue water of the Rhone and the gray water of the Arve flow side by.ide unmingled for several hundred yards below their confluence. — Fromthe bridge the tramway goes on via Rampe Quidort, Petit Lancy^ and Onex Geogr.^iist.-y.Vagnar a Pebes.Lei)
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SaVeve. GENEVA. IV. Route 65. 243 to (31/2 M.) Bernex (several small restaurants), a village whence the Signalde Bernex (1655; fine view) may be ascended in 1/4 hr.; and thence viaLaconnex to (9 M.) Pougny-Chancy, a station on the Geneva and Lyonsrailway (to Geneva 12 M., in 40 min.). To 8t. Jdlien, 5/2 M., twelve times daily in 3/4 hr. (to Carouge 13 min.),from the Quai de la Po<te (p. 242). Beyond the Pont dArve our line leadsto the left from that to Lancy, to (13/4 M.) Carouge (1260; Balance; Ecude Savoie), a suburb (69rO inhab.) of Geneva, founded in 1780 by VictorAmadeus III. of Savoy, who attracted many Genevese artisans to it by theoffer of special advantages. Two stations: Grand-Bureau^ at the N. end,and Carouge-Rondeau, at the S. end, near the terminus of the tramway toGeneva and Annemasse (p. 281). — The cars next pass Bachet de Pesay; Plan-les-Ouates, with the drill-ground and rifle-range of the Geneva troops;Arare, and Perly; and reach (51/2 M.) St. Julien, a little F

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