the fortifications of
Havre, small seats! clusters of trees! this is the village of l'Eure
threatened by the sea of an entire destruction. We must not pass over
this green hill so delightful to view, standing on the opposite shore
seamen would not forgive my silence, among these high trees stands a
chapel dedicated to Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Ingouville is of 4,800
inhabitants, among which a great many Englishmen live there as in their
own country, having their particular churchyard, physicians, and many
occasions of hearing from England, which they can perceive from their
pavilions. The traveller can go to Elbeuf by land or water. The lover
of the scenes of nature will enjoy very romantical prospects, a new
kind of view will strike his sight, a long train of rocks called
D'Orival, the most part steep, covered with evergreen trees, which seem
shoot out, with difficulty, of their craggings."

He tells us Soissons (p. 102.) "has a college, a pretty theatre, and a
bishoprick-sec, from the Cradle of Christianity into the Gauls." At
Coulommieres (Seine et Marne), "the sciences are not cultivated, but the
inhabitants know pretty well how to play at nine pins." At Fontaines les
Cornues, "the inhabitants of Paris with a small expense can procure to
himself a scenery scarecely to be found in the other quarter of the globe!"
At Chatillion-sur-Seine, "the streets are neat and well aired." At Arles,
p. 361., a head of a goddess carved in marble:

"The way in which the neck and left shoulder are ended, points out that
the head is _related_ to a figure in drapery cut in another block."

"The merchant of Bordeaux is distinguished by his noble easy and
pompous manner, he makes himself easily forgiven a sort of boasting,
which is the foible of the country."

How the ladies bathe at Mont d'Or, p. 218.:

"At five in the morning bathing begins. Two hardy Highlanders go and
fetch in a kind of deal boxes the fashionable lady, who when in town
never quits her bed-down before noon, the annuitant, the rich man, are
all brought in the same manner in these boxes. It is one of the most
pleasant bathing establishments; it offers a peristyle, a small
resting-room, a warming-place for linen, with partitions to prevent its
mixture."

The work consists of 446 mortal pages though I am bound to say a portion
here and there is respectably written.

WELD