^2 ON THE TRAVELLING MEMORANDUMS. Sep. ?r| 



from the deep red of the poppy, to light carnation ; 

 and it finds its way to India, China, the Levant, and 

 Arabia. The Mahometans, it is well known, bury 

 their dead with collars formed of this beautiful pro- 

 duftion; of which, when large pieces of a fine colour 

 are found, of an inch or more in diameter, they are 

 turned of a fpherical form, and have been fometimes 

 fold at Leghorn for fifty guineas a-piece. I cannot 

 conclude this letter without thanking you for your ex- 

 cellent teftimony to the traufcendent merit of Corneille, 

 your defence of Shakefpeare, and chaftifement of 

 Voltaire. 



I am, Sir, 



j4 Traveller m my Elbow-chair. 



ON FROISSART. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Sir, Spring-Place, Kentijhtcwn, ^ej>t. 5, 1791. 



1 OBSERVE that in the Bee 25th May 1791 there is 

 fome notice of Froiflart as an hiftorian of England, 

 and a wifh exprcfled for an accurate verfion of his 

 work; and in that of 15th June a manufcript of his 

 Chronicle in the library at Breflau is mentioned as 

 being fuller than any which is printed. Give me leave 

 to add, what has perhaps efcaped the notice of your 

 correfpondents, that there is a verfion of him in old 

 Englifh, which is exceedingly fcarce •, that we have 

 two moft magnificent manufcripts of his Chronicle 

 written in the fifteenth century, in the King's lib- 

 rary ; that they and the editions all vary widely from 

 each other, fo that, to do juftice to a new edition in 

 French, or a tranflation, would be a work of prodi- 

 ous labour, no lefs than a careful collation of the 

 ■whole manufcripts and editions. It is however a 



