Chalons sur Saone..... Lyons, by steam.... Avignon, by steam... Marseilles.... 10 15 To Manheim 3(sleep.) do. Hours on the Way. 17 18 201 21 Nymegen 12 do. Rotterdam 8 do. To Paris by mallepost. 48 54 London.. 48 8 13 6 or 8 Four days more would enable the traveller to include Baden and Strasburg. This route, as here laid down, would give a traveller the opportunity of seeing several most interesting cities and much fine scenery--though of course they could not be explored thoroughly in such a flying visit. A great many of our countrymen, having no fixed plan to travel by, seem only to calculate how far from home they can go in a limited time, and are contented with what they can see from the deck of the steamer and the window of the diligence. They would be much more gratified were they to portion out their time somewhat in the manner indicated above. .......... Genoa, by steam. ... Days in Travelling. Constantinople, by steam 56 hrs. Smyrna, by steam every week Athens, twice a month. The distance from Vienna to Constantinople, 1500 miles, may, under favourable circumstances, be performed in ten or twelve days. Six Steam-boats are at present running between these two places. There is no Steam-boat at present from Athens to Corfu, though one is expected shortly to run. The British Post-office Mediterranean Steam-packets go and return once a month from Falmouth to Corfu, touching at Cadiz, Gibraltar and Malta. The French are about to start a Steam-boat from Marseilles to Malta. There are Steamers already from Marseilles to Naples, and from Naples to Palermo and Malta, once or twice a month. Those among the above routes which belong to Southern Germany and Switzerland will be described in the Second and Third Volumes of the Hand-book. |