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CHAP. IV.

GENEVA .

Leaving this spot, which recalled somany interesting circumstances in Voltaire ’slife, we reached the borders of the lake inthe afternoon, where we stopped at theHotel d’Angleterre, about a mile from thetown. Geneva is situated on the spotwhere the blue waters of the Rhone rushimpetuously from the lake, and the infinitenumber of villas in the vicinity, prove theopulence of their inhabitants. In theevening we hired a gondola, and rowed uponthe lake. The clouds had cleared from themountains, and we had an extensive viewof nearly the whole length of it. Thewater was so perfectly transparent, that thesmallest object was discernible at the bot-tom, and the air possessed a balmy sweet-ness peculiar to these climates. The ter-