The Country Doctor (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Country DoctorOn a lovely spring morning, in 1829, a man about fifty years of age was riding along a mountainous road which leads to a large village in the neighborhood of La Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market-town of a populous district enclosed within the circumference of a long valley. A torrent, with a rocky bed often dry, but filled at that season by the melted snows, waters this valley, whose heights command on either side the peaks of Dauphine and the Savoie.Though all the landscapes nestling within the chain of the two Mauriennes have a family likeness, the region through which the stranger was riding offered to the eye a diversity of ground and a changefulness of light and shadow which may be sought in vain elsewhere. At times the valley, widening suddenly, gave to view an irregular carpet of verdure, which constant irrigation, due to the mountains, kept ever fresh and tender to the eye.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.