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Excerpt from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume Thirteen Travels in Russia, Vol. 1
The chief centres were in no wise attractive, and a trip in one of these conveyances was something to be long remembered by those who had intrusted themselves to that mode of progression. The hotels and inns were very far indeed from approaching the better modern houses of entertainment, leaving out of consideration the palatial hotels that now abound in great cities and in all popular resorts. The post-chaise answered the needs of the wealthy, and many of the latter class usually travelled in carriages of their own, in which, of course, they secured the maximum of comfort attainable at the time. The roads, save where military necessities had compelled the construction of good highways, were rough and stony, and accidents due to these causes were frequent. Finally, the expense of travel was infinitely greater than at the present day, when one may so readily proceed from one part of Europe to the other for a very moderate sum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
