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On Tuesday, December 15, Ellen White rose at 3:30 A.M. to catch the train for Turin. To save money they traveled third class. Though the car was cold, they reached Turin without too much discomfort.EGWE 145.3

The train passed through some magnificent Alpine scenery that delighted Mrs. White, leading her to exclaim that she had never seen anything so spectacular, not even in the Rocky Mountains of her own country.EGWE 145.4

Arriving in Geneva in the evening, they were met by Daniel T. Bourdeau, Marion, his wife, and his 10-year-old son, Augustin. They walked a short distance to Bourdeau's rented house at Chautepoulet 12.EGWE 145.5

The next morning Bourdeau hired a carriage and took Ellen White and Mary for a two-hour tour of the city. “We walked some distance upon a very high eminence,” she wrote in her diary, “and looked down where the two waters meet—the Rhone and the Geneva [Arve]. One is dark blue, the other a greenish color, and although the streams meet they do not lose their distinct colors and blend in one for a long distance.”—Manuscript 30, 1885.EGWE 145.6