The Enfans trouvés —A room with about eighty-six children in cradles, as sweet as a parlour-They lose a third; take in to perhaps more than seven [years old]; put them to trades; pin to them the papers sent with them-Want nurses Saw their chapel.

"Went to St. Eustatia (1); saw an innumerable company of girls catechised, in many bodies, perhaps 100 to a catechist-Boys taught at one time, girls at another-The sermon: the preacher wears a cap, which he takes off at the name-his action uniform, not very violent.

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Monday, Oct. 30.-We saw the library of St. Germain (2) - A very noble collection-Codex Divinorum Officiorum, 1459-a letter, square like that of the Offices, perhaps the same -The Codex, by Fust and Gernsheym-Meursius, 12 v. fol. French, 3 vol. fol.

Amadis, in CATHOLICON sine colophone, but of 1460-Two other editions (3), one by. Augustin. de Civitate Dei, without name, date, or place, but of Fust's square letter as it seems.

"I dined with Col. Drumgould; had a pleasing afternoon.

"Some of the books of St. Germain's stand in presses from the wall, like those at Oxford.

"Tuesday, Oct. 31.—I lived at the Benedictines; meagre day; soup meagre, herrings, eels, both with sauce; fried fish; lentils, tasteless in themselves - In the library; where I found Maffeus's de Historia

(1) The parish church of St. Eustache.

C.

(2) St. Germain des Prés, the too celebrated abbaye. — C. (3) I have looked in vain into De Bure, Meerman, Maittaire, and other typographical books, for the two editions of the "Catholicon which Dr. Johnson mentions here, with names which I cannot make out. I read "one by Latinius, one by Boedinus." I have deposited the original MS. in the British Museum, where the curious may see it. My grateful acknow ledgments are due to Mr. Planta for the trouble he was pleased to take in aiding my researches.

Indica: Promontorium flectere, to double the Cape-I parted very tenderly from the prior and Friar Wilkes. "Maitre des Arts, 2 y. - Bacc. Theol. 3 y. Licentiate, 2 y.-Doctor Th. 2 y. in all 9 years For the Doctorate three disputations, Major, Minor, Sorbonica Several colleges suppressed, and transferred to that which was the Jesuit's College.

"Wednesday, Nov. 1.-We left Paris-St. Denis, a large town: the church not very large, but the middle aisle is very lofty and awful. On the left are chapels built beyond the line of the wall, which destroyed the symmetry of the sides. The organ is higher above the pavement than I have ever seen. The gates are of brass. On the middle gate is the history of our Lord. The painted windows are historical, and said to be eminently beautiful-We were at another church belonging to a convent, of which the portal is a dome: we could not enter further, and it was almost dark. Thursday, Nov. 2.- - We came this day to Chantilly, a seat belonging to the Prince of Condé. This place is eminently beautified by all varieties of waters starting up in fountains, falling in cascades, running in streams, and spread in lakes. The water seems to be too near the house. All this water is brought from a source or river three leagues off, by an artificial canal, which for one league is carried under ground — The house is magnificent-The cabinet seems well stocked; what I remember was, the jaws of a hippopotamus, and a young hippopotamus preserved, which, however, is so small, that I doubt its reality-It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth-Nothing was [preserved] in spirits; all was dry-The dog; the deer; the ant-bear with long snout The toucan, long broad beak -The stables were of very great length The kennel had no scents -There was a mockery of a village — The ménagerie had few animals (1)—

(1) The writing is so bad here, that the names of several of the animals could not be deciphered without much more ac

Two faussans (1), or Brazilian weasels, spotted, very wild-There is a forest, and, I think, a park—I walked till I was very weary, and next morning felt my feet battered, and with pains in the toes.

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Friday, Nov. 3.- We came to Compeigne, a very large town, with a royal palace built round a pentagonal court The court is raised upon vaults, and has, I suppose, an entry on one side by a gentle rise-Talk of painting-The church is not very large, but very elegant and splendid - I had at first great difficulty to walk, but motion grew continually easier At night we came to Noyon, an episcopal city - The cathedral is very beautiful, the pillars alternately Gothic and Corinthian — We entered a very noble parochial church is walled, and is said to be three miles round.

Noyon

"Saturday, Nov. 4. We rose very early, and came through St. Quintin to Cambray, not long after threeWe went to an English nunnery, to give a letter to Father Welch, the confessor, who came to visit us in the evening.

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Sunday, Nov. 5. We saw the cathedral - It is very beautiful, with chapels on each side.

splendid. The balustrade in one part brass.

The choir

The Neff

very high and grand. The altar silver as far as it is seen. The vestments very splendid dictines' church

At the Bene

quaintance with natural history than I possess. Dr. Blagden, with his usual politeness, most obligingly examined the MS. To that gentieman, and to Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, who also very readily assisted me, I beg leave to express my best thanks.

(1) It is thus written by Johnson, from the French pronunciation of fossane. It should be observed, that the person who showed this ménagerie was mistaken in supposing the fossane and the Brazilian weasel to be the same, the fossane being a different animal, and a native of Madagascar. I find them, however, upon one plate in Pennant's "Synopsis of Quadrupeds."

Here his Journal (1) ends abruptly. Whether he wrote any more after this time, I know not; but probably not much, as he arrived in England about the 12th of November. These short notes of his tour, though they may seem minute taken singly, make together a considerable mass of information, and exhibit such an ardour of inquiry and acuteness of examination, as, I believe, are found in but few travellers, especially at an advanced age. They completely refute the idle notion which has been propagated, that he could not see (2); and, if he had taken the trouble to revise and digest them, he undoubtedly could have expanded them into a very entertaining narrative. (3)

(1) My worthy and ingenious friend, Mr. Andrew Lumisden, by his accurate acquaintance with France, enabled me to make out many proper names which Dr. Johnson had written indistinctly, and sometimes spelt erroneously.

(2) Miss Reynolds, who knew him longer, and saw him more constantly than Mr. Boswell, says, "Dr. Johnson's sight was so very defective, that he could scarcely distinguish the face of his most intimate acquaintance at half a yard, and in general it was observable, that his critical remarks on dress, &c. were the result of very close inspection of the object, partly from curiosity, and partly from a desire of exciting admiration of his perspicuity, of which he was not a little ambitious."— Recollections.-C.

(3) "Mr. Thrale loved prospects, and was mortified that his friend could not enjoy the sight of those different dispositions of wood and water, hill and valley, that travelling through England and France affords a man. But when he wished to point them out to his companion, 'Never heed such nonsense,' would be the reply: a blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. Let us, if we do talk, talk about something: men and women are my subjects of inquiry; let us see how these differ from those we have left behind.' When we were at Rouen, he took a great fancy to the Abbé Roffette, with whom he conversed about the destruction of the order of Jesuits, and condemned it loudly, as a blow to the general power of the church, and likely to be followed with

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When I met him in London the following year, the account which he gave me of his French tour, was, Sir, I have seen all the visibilities of Paris, and around it but to have formed an acquaintance with the people there would have required more time than I could stay. I was just beginning to creep into acquaintance by means of Colonel Drumgould, a very high man, Sir, head of L'Ecole Militaire, a most complete character, for he had first been a professor of rhetoric, and then became a soldier. And, Sir, I was very kindly treated by the English Benedictines, and have a cell appropriated to me in their convent."

He observed, "The great in France live very magnificently, but the rest very miserably. There is no happy middle state as in England. The shops of Paris are mean; the meat in the markets is such as would be sent to a gaol in England; and

many and dangerous innovations, which might at length become fatal to religion itself, and shake even the foundation of Christianity. The gentleman seemed to wonder and delight in his conversation:_the_talk was all in Latin, which both spoke fluently, and Dr. Johnson pronounced a long eulogium upon Milton with so much ardour, eloquence, and ingenuity, that the abbé rose from his seat and embraced him. My husband, seeing them apparently so charmed with the company of each other, politely invited the abbé to England, intending to oblige his friend; who, instead of thanking, reprimanded him severely before the man, for such a sudden burst of tenderness towards a person he could know nothing at all of; and thus put a sudden finish to all his own and Mr. Thrale's entertainment from the company of the Abbé Roffette. His dislike of the French was well known to both nations, I believe; but he applauded the number of their books and the graces of their style. have few sentiments,' said he, but they express them neatly; they have little meat too, but they dress it well."". - PIOZZI.

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