9» TRAVELLING MEM0RAKDUM5. Sept. ift, 



an excellent preacher: — he perfoi'ms divine fervice 

 every Sunday at ten o'clock, forenoon, in a field, about 

 a mile from the town, without any moleftation. 



Motitpeiier has a very pleafant fituation, on a rifing 

 ground, furrounded by an extenfive, and for moft part, 

 fertile plain, within fight of the Mediterranean. — ^The 

 air is uncommonly pure and fharp ; — hurtful in con- 

 fumptive cafes, but falutary to weak nerves, fo I find 

 it agrees with my conftitution : — though for an extra- 

 ordinary continuance of near three weeks, the weather 

 has been very cold, and the menftral winds blow very 

 high.^^The States of Languedoc aflemble here in win- 

 ter; when, I am told, the moft noble and opulent fa- 

 milies maintain an elegant and exemplary hofpitality, 

 without cxcefs either in luxury or play. — The provifions 

 are good and plentiful, but generally dear -, — frefli and 

 good fifti of all kinds, particularly the rouger,foley and 

 turboty fell at very high prices.— =-The ftates are not in- 

 attentive to the profperity and interefts of this great 

 province •, — yet they have l^therto failed to eftablifh 

 proper rules and regulations for the improvement of 

 their fiflieries, which are very ill-managed.^— Their uni- 

 verfity long poflefled great reputation, efpecially in the 

 medical line. — They are allowed to ufc (he King's gar- 

 dens, which are extenfive, though neither beautiful nor 

 richly ftocked with botanical plants. — In this garden 

 Narcijfa, (on whofe death YoUng raves with all the ro- 

 mantic wildnefs of poetical phrenzy in' his Nighb 

 Thoughts,) was fecretly buried. — The fpot, a little 

 gloomy grove, is known •, — I faw it ;— it is indeed a 



doleful Jhade. Some generous and liberal-minded 



French perfons of diftiniSlion lately made a cottt-ribu- 

 tion to eredl a monumental tomb over this burial- 

 place. — The propofal has occafioned ferioUs contefts,- 

 not yet fettled. — The orthodox are greatly oiiended 

 that fuch a monument fliould be ere£ted o\cr wihal'^ 

 lowed groutidy and to the memory of a heretical girl. 

 —The two grand walks, the Ejjjletiade^ and the 



