I think, pressed upon cloth, and then set sloping to drop the superfluous mercury: the slope is daily heightened towards a perpendicular.

"In the way I saw the Grêve, the mayor's house (1), and the Bastile. We then went to Sans-terre, a brewer(2)

He brews with about as much malt as Mr. Thrale, and sells his beer at the same price, though he pays no duty for malt, and little more than half as much for beer Beer is sold retail at sixpence a bottle He brews 4,000 barrels a year There are seventeen brewers in Paris, of whom none is supposed to brew more than he - Reckoning them at 3,000 each, they make 51,000 a year They make their malt, for malting is here no trade.

"The moat of the Bastile is dry.

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Tuesday, Oct. 24 — We visited the king's library I saw the Speculum Humane Salvationis, rudely printed, with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be with wooden types, and part with pages cut in boards. The Bible, supposed to be older that that of Mentz, in 1462; it has no date; it is supposed to have been printed with wooden types I am in doubt; the print is large and fair, in two foliosAnother book was shown me, supposed to have been printed with wooden types - I think Durandi Sanctuarium in 1458- This is inferred from the difference of form sometimes seen in the same letter, which might be struck with different puncheons · The regular similitude of most letters proves better that they are metal I saw nothing but the Speculum, which I had not seen, I think, before.

The library very large, - Marbone and Durandi,

"Thence to the Sorbonne not in lattices like the king's q. collection 14 vol. Scriptores de rebus Gallicis, many (1) The Hôtel de Ville.-C.

(2) Santerre, the detestable ruffian who afterwards conducted Louis XVI. to the scaffold, and commanded the troops that guarded it during his murder. — M.

folios

- Histoire Généalogique of France, 9 vol. Gallia Christiana, the first edition, 4to. the last, f. 12 vol. — The prior and librarian dined with us—I waited on them home Their garden pretty, with covered walks, but small; yet may hold many students — The doctors of the Sorbonne are all equal choose those who succeed to vacancies - Profit little.

Wednesday, Oct. 25. — I went with the prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke (1) — We walked round the palace, and had some talk I dined with our whole company at the monastery In the library, Beroald

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Titus, from Boccace

Cymon Oratio Proverbialis to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies. (2) Thursday, Oct. 26. We saw the china at Sêve, cut, glazed, painted — Bellevue (3), a pleasing house, not great: fine prospect― Meudon, an old palace Alexander, in porphyry: hollow between eyes and nose, thin cheeks - Plato and Aristotle Noble terrace overlooks the town. St. Cloud - Gallery not very high, nor grand, but pleasing In the rooms, Michael Angelo, drawn by himself, Sir Thomas More, Des Cartes, Bochart, Naudæus, Mazarine — Gilded wainscot, so common that it is not minded

Gough and Keene Hooke came to us at the inn- A message from Drumgould.

Friday, Oct. 27. — I staid at home - Gough and Keene, and Mrs. S- -'s (4) friend dined with us — This day we began to have a fire-The weather is

(1) Second son of Hooke, the historian, a doctor of the Sorbonne.-C.

(2) He means, I suppose, that he read these different pieces while he remained in the library.

(3) At that period inhabited by the king's aunts. — - C.

(+) Mrs. Strickland, the sister of Mr. Charles Townley, who happened to meet the party at Dieppe, and accompanied them to Paris. She introduced them to Madame du Bocage. Reynolds's Recollections. — C.

grown very cold, and, I fear, has a bad effect upon my breath, which has grown much more free and easy in this country.

Saturday, Oct. 28.-I visited the Grand Chartreux ('), built by St. Louis - It is built for forty, but contains only twenty-four, and will not maintain more -The friar that spoke to us had a pretty apartmentMr. Baretti says four rooms; I remember but three His books seemed to be French-His garden was neat ; he gave me grapes-We saw the Place de Victoire, with the statues of the king, and the captive nations.

“We saw the palace and gardens of Luxembourg, but the gallery was shut-We climbed to the top stairs I dined with Colebrooke(2), who had much companyFoote, Sir George Rodney (3), Motteux, Udson, Taaf -Called on the prior, and found him in bed.

Our

"Hotel- a guinea a day-Coach, three guineas a week-Valet de place, three 1. a day- Avantcoureur, a guinea a week-Ordinary dinner, six 1. a headordinary seems to be about five guineas a day - Our extraordinary expenses, as diversions, gratuities, clothes, I cannot reckon - Our travelling is ten guineas a day— White stockings (4), 18 1.— Wig— Hat.

66 Sunday, Oct. 29.-We saw the boarding school(1) There was in France but one Grand Chartreux, the monastery near Grenoble, founded by St. Bruno, to the 13th prior of which St. Louis applied for an off-set of the order to be established in Paris, where he placed them in his château de Vauvert, which stood in the Rue d'Enfer. The good people of Paris believed that the château of Vauvert, before St. Louis had fixed the Carthusians there, was haunted, and thence the street was called Rue d'Enfer. — C.

(2) Sir George Colebrooke.-C.

(3) The celebrated Admiral, afterwards Lord Rodney: he was residing abroad on account of pecuniary embarrassments, and, on the breaking out of the war in 1778, the Marshal Duc de Biron generously offered him a loan of a thousand louis d'ors, to enable him to return to take his part in the service of his country. C.

(4) That is, 18 livres. Two pair of white silk stockings were probably purchased. — M.

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.

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. - Amadis, in French, 3 vol. fol. - 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 Historiá

(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 pleases 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.

This

Thursday, Nov. 2.- We came this day to Chantilly, a seat belonging to the Prince of Condé. 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