drays. "Camden in giving our city credit for
its cleanliness in forming 'goutes,' says they use sledges here
instead of carts, lest they destroy the arches beneath which are the
goutes."--Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, &c.,]

So to the Three..Crowns Tavern I was directed; but, when I come in,
the master told me that he had newly given over the selling of wine; it
seems, grown rich; and so went to the Sun; and there Deb. going with
W. Hewer and Betty Turner to see her uncle [Butts], and leaving my wife
with the mistress of the house, I to see the quay, which is a most large
and noble Vlace; and to see the new ship building by Bally, neither
he nor Furzer being in town. It will be a fine ship. Spoke with the
foreman, and did give the boys that kept the cabin 2s. Walked back to
the Sun, where I find Deb. come back, and with her, her uncle, a sober
merchant, very good company, and so like one of our sober, wealthy,
London merchants, as pleased me mightily. Here we dined, and much good
talk with him, 7s. 6d.: a messenger to Sir John Knight, who was not at
home, 6d. Then walked with him [Butts] and my wife and company round the
quay, and to the ship; and he shewed me the Custom-house, and made me
understand many things of the place, and led us through Marsh Street,
where our girl was born. But, Lord! the joy that was among the old poor
people of the place, to see Mrs. Willet's daughter, it seems her mother
being a brave woman and mightily beloved! And so brought us a back
way by surprize to his house, where a substantial good house, and well
furnished; and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole
venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all Bristoll
milk,

[A sort of rum punch (milk punch), which, and turtle, were products
of the trade of Bristol with the West Indies. So Byron says in the
first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"

"Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,
Too much oer bowls of rack prolong the night."

These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the
following are substituted:

"Four turtle feeder's verse must needs he flat,
Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat."

Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners
of Bristol regaled their visitors: "The repast was dressed in the
furnace, And was acco