jypf. THAVELLINa MEMORANDUMS. IJf 



March 23. This day I was joined by my nephew, 

 —an excellent companion — and we immediateiv fet 

 out on our return northward. In palBng at Toulon 

 we vifited Mr. and Mrs. C — k,- who, for fome time, 

 were very agreeable members of our Britifli party at 

 Hyeres ; — and I finally fettled my commerce with the 

 prieft. 



Afarch^o, I'jSj. Marfeilles ; — we pafs fome days 

 very agreeably here. My flores of natural hiftory col- 

 Itefted in thofe parts are now carefully packed in iif- 

 teen or fixteen cafes, and (hipped, by my banker, for 

 London *. • I alfo revifited Monf. Colet's line cabinet, 

 with a letter of recommendation from Madam Boar- 

 gare. I {hall ever warmly remember his kindnefs, 

 and wifh for any proper occafion of a grateful return. 

 He prefented to me a cafket, containing a felefl, though 

 fmall colleftion of curious and rare articles in natural 

 hiftory ; — and on the footing of a liberal and friendly 

 commerce, I received from him a lift of articles which 

 he defired to have from different parts of Great Britain. 

 Moft unhappily I have miflaid this Mil, and earneftly 

 wifti, by the mediation of fome obliging and good na- 

 tured traveller, to have it replaced, that I may be en- 

 abled to pay what I may properly call a debt of honour. 

 For my own recollection, and to inform other curious 

 travellers, I fet down that during this fhort itop at 

 Marfeilles I had fome ufeful commerce with a new 

 •acquaintance, a fair dealer in natural hiftory ; — his 

 'name and addrefs is — " Th. Ville, au coin de la caribier&y 

 •vers le port a Marfeilles. . _; 



' It 13 ccrtjirl/ one, and a remarkable proof, (thoM^h in aiy ii»- 

 iLaiico of little momeut), of the cftaliliflied regularity and I'lilety of com^ 

 mcrce, th:it, tLoug.h I purchafcd cumberlefs articles of natural hiftory, 

 'through the whole courfe of my ertenfive travels, and left them in 

 'parcels to the charge of many ditferent merchants, to hsfent by various 

 tbunnels to different ports in liritain, 1 have fullered so loft or cci- 

 *"-'.'Uaett -.vorthy of mci.ticij ; aLmoft all now are in r.iy pciTjirxa. -_ 



