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request, and recommend him herewith earnestly to Herr Clifford. 

 to give him such assistance as he needs. I shall never fail to 

 reciprocate this kindness with like services. Gael." 



Besides this, I received a letter of recommendation from the 

 private physician of the Margrave, Dr. Eichrodt,to Prof Beruhard. 

 de Jussieu in Paris. I am sorry that I took no copy of that, for 

 it was admirably written. 



Soon afterwards Herr Burckhardt procured me a French, 

 passport from the Governor of Strassburg : — 



"Leonor du Matne, Comte du Bourg, Marechal de France, 

 Commandeur des Ordres du Eoy, Gouverneur-Greneral des 

 Provinces de Haute et Basse Alsace, et Gouverneur Parti- 

 culier de la Ville et du Chateau de Belfort. 



"B est ordonne a tous ceux qui sont dans I'etendue de notre 

 gouvernement, & nous prions tous autres, de laisser sureraent & 

 iibrement passer le nomme George Ehret, Jardinier venant de 

 Basle pour aller en France, s'y perfectionner dans sa profession, 

 apres quoy il retournera au dit Basle chez le S. Burckhardt, son 

 maitre, sans luy donner aucun trouble ny empechement, au 

 contraire toute sorte d'aide & assistance en cas de besoin. Le 

 present bon pour son sejour en France seulemeut. Fait a 

 Strasbourg le douze mai mil sept cent trente quatre. 



O 



Par Monseigneur." 



[From Basle Dr. Trew only received twelve paintings from 

 Ehret, since his time was fully occupied in laying out the new 

 garden.] 



Thereupon I departed (having 12 louis d'or in my pocket) to 

 Berne, lodged at the ' Falcon,' the largest inn, for a month, and 

 began again to paint. Now as mine host, named Frederick, was 

 a great lover and connoisseur of painting, I spent some days in 

 painting a piece for him ; and I was thus kept by him all the 

 time I was there free of charge ; and he gave me also a present 

 of a piece of gold worth Ig louis d'or. 



I left Berne and went to Lausanne and Geneva (at that time 

 there was a dispute between the magistrate and the burghers ; 

 and they all collected in large numbers in the street) ; from thence 

 on the Ehone to Lyons. As there was no one on the boat but a 

 French lady from Lyons with her servants, I was sometimes 

 questioned by her as to my trade, whence I came, whether I was 

 afraid of travelling to France in this time of war, whether I had 

 a passport, and the like. At last I was obliged to show her my 

 passport and also my letter of recommendation from Dr. Eichrodt, 

 which surprised her exceedingly. She said to me, " When you 

 come to Paris you will become acquainted with M. du Fay, 



