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Title: Wanderings by the Loire
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Paris : Rittner and Goupil
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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apparent object to the centre of disaffection."
In this difficulty the Arts came to our relief. We
had fortunately in our possession a few of the beautiful
engravings of this volume, and a copy of the Pic-
turesque Annual for last year. The mayors heart
opened as he gazed.
"Aha!" said he ; "that is another thing. They are
superb! You English are a very strange people — a
very extraordinary people ! But come, since I perceive
that you are only a Valter Scott, why you must go
where you please !"
Being thus permitted to go where we pleased, it
was our pleasure to go westward; and leaving behind
us the faubourg Saint-Symphorien, on the right bank
of the river, we pursued our way along the levee to-
wards Saumur. The road runs close by the side of the
river, and is flanked on the right hand by a line ofcal
careous cliffs like those above Tours, but not so
much excavated. A series of vineyards, gardens, and
summer-houses continues for more than a league, till
we reach the village of La Valliere ; but previously, we
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ANJOU. 107
had crossed the river Choisille over the bridge of La
Motte, between the two hamlets of the Maisons Blanches
and La Guigniere. Near the bridge, a road con-
ducts to the village of Foudettes, about a league from
the Loire, where are to be seen the remains of a Roman
aqueduct, called, strangely enough, by the natives, the
Arena. Three leagues from Tours is the little town of
Luynes, supposed by some, with little probability, to
be the real Caesarodunum, the ancient capital of the
Turones. The aqueduct above mentioned, however,
there is no doubt, conducted to it; and other remains
of Roman antiquities, within the town itself, attest its
ancient importance. At present, the most remarkable
object it boasts is the Chateau de Chatigne, formerly
called the Chateau de Maille, which stands upon a
height before you enter, overlooking the windings of
the river. The round pointed towers of this building,
with the general elegance of its Gothic architecture,
produce a very delightful effect in so conspicuous a

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