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Grovernor of tlie Eoyal Herb-Grarden, who is a near relation of 

 mine." I have forgotten this lady's name. 



Through this letter of recommendation I was again sent free 

 of charge by this lady from Geneva to Lyons. There she seut 

 me to a good inn, saying I was not to go away from it till a good 

 and cheap opportunity arose, which also happened in a week. An 

 empty postchaise was going to Montpellier, and only cost me 

 5 shillings for that distance. 



I was taken by my postillion to a frightfully dear house in 

 Montpellier, and I knew no one, and no one knew me ; but in a 

 few days I made the acquaintance of a German doctor through 

 my landlady, because I understood very little j)atois. She intro- 

 duced me to him, one Herr Antoine Frederic Molie, Doctor of 

 Medicine, from the town of Christian-Erlang in Evduce. I have 

 some of his own handwriting by me still. 



Now when I made the acquaintance of this Dr. Molie I told 

 him of my acquaintance with Dr. Trew, whereupon he said 

 that be also knew him. Immediately he found for me a new, 

 good, and cheap lodging before the evening came, with which I 

 was entirely satisfied, and remained over a month at Montpellier 

 to look round the herb-garden and the surrounding country ; 

 but during this time there was a great heat, and almost all the 

 plants were burnt up by it. Nevertheless, I prepared some 

 paintings for Dr. Trew, and, if I remember riglitly, sent them off 

 from there to Nuremberg. 



[Dr. Trew remarks that he only received three paintings from 

 here on account of the plants being dried up ; but these showed 

 all the more care and a marked improvement m execution.] 



As it was my intention to go to Paris, I did not care to make 

 any special fi lends at Montpellier ; but instead I started with 

 some muleteers over the mountains of Auvergne to Clermont. 

 After three days' journey from Montpellier, we came to the little 

 town Milliau, where we remained for some days and rested 

 ourselves. 



Now, since on this journey I took pleasure, as is my custom, 

 in the collecting of wild flowers, the muleteers took me for a 

 doctor, though I coniradicted them many times. They told it 

 secretly to the host where we lodged at Milliau in Auvergne, and 

 he asked me whence I came, and what was my business. I 

 answered him that I travelled lor pleasure, and was a lover of 

 plants. " Oh," said the host, " I will soon find out ; my son is a 

 doctor practising in this town, and he has also studied botany 

 under Professor Chicoyneau at Montpellier." At this I was 

 astonished, and thought 1 might learn something from him. The 

 young doctor [Dr. Lame] thereupon soon came to examine me 

 as to what brought me hither; but I soon satisfied him by 

 showing him my passport, and the open letter of recommendation 

 from Dr. Eichrodt. Thereupon he desired to go botanising with 

 me, and conducted me about in the neighbourhood, where 1 found 

 many beautiful plants, and particularly some which in Germany 

 are cultivated in gardens. 



