If a ticket is taken for the wrong station (by mistake) and the luggage is accordingly registered wrongly too, the passenger must represent the same to the station-master and ask him to allow a change to be made; if there is not time to do this the luggage clerk may take the responsibility—­if the urgency of the case is made argentiferously clear—­but the plan is not recommended. It is important to know that if a traveller misses his train he must present his ticket at the ticket office to be restamped in order to make it again available—­otherwise it is liable to be forfeited.

Travellers will also save themselves much trouble by settling which hotel they intend to go to, before arriving at their destination; and it must be fully understood that for the carrying of small parcels taken into the carriage, the aid of porters can never be counted on.  See Chapter XI.

Luggage not exceeding 30 kilogrammes (i.e. 66 lbs.  Eng.) is carried free; 1d. being charged for the registration thereof.

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Routes from London to Paris.

Route 1.—­Via Dover, Calais, Montreuil, Abbeville, Amiens, Claremont, and Creil:  the quickest route.

Route 2.—­Via Folkestone, Boulogne, Montreuil, &c. as above.

Route 3.—­Via Newhaven, Dieppe, Rouen, Gaillon, Mantes, and Poissy:  the least expensive route.

From Liverpool to Bordeaux.

Route 4.—­Per Pacific Steam Navigation Co.’s steamers, fortnightly, sailing on Wednesdays; average passage 2-1/2 days.

From London to Bordeaux.

Route. 5.—­Per General Steam Navigation Co.’s steamers, average passage 3 to 4 days.

Route 6.—­Via Weymouth, Cherbourg, Caen, Alencon, Le Mans, Tours and Angouleme. From Paris to Bordeaux.

Route 7.—­Via Orleans, Blois, St. Pierre les Corps (for Tours), Poitiers, Angouleme, and Libourne.

From Paris to Bagneres de Bigorre.

Route 8.—­Via Orleans, Nexon, Perigueux, Les Eyzies, Libos, Agen, Lectoure, Auch, Mirande, and Tarbes:  the most direct route from Paris to the Pyrenees.

From Paris to Toulouse.

Route 9.—­Via Issoudun, Argenton, Limoges, Nexon, Brives, Rocamadour, Assier, Figeac, Villefranche, and Tessonieres:  the quickest and best route for the Pyrenees Orientales, and resorts of Vernet, Amelie, &c.

From Bordeaux to Arcachon.

Route 10.—­Via Gazinet, Facture, Lamothe, and La Teste.

From Bordeaux to Bagneres de Bigorre.

Route 11.—­Via Morcenx, Arjuzaux, Arengosse, Mont de Marsan, Aire, Vic-Bigorre, Tarbes, Salles, Adour, and Montgaillard:  a longer route from Paris, by a few miles only, than Route 8.