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ftaid longer at Paris, he would have introduced me to 

 too much good company of both fexes. 



I have heard many fevere complaints againft the Pp.- 

 rifian tradelmen and inn-keeptrs for undue advantages 

 upon ftrangers, of which 1 did not experience one in- 

 llance. Mr, Mary my banker, ufod me in the mod 

 liberal and candid manner; from my bookfeller Lau- 

 reat, Rue Turrennou, I made many purchafes of 

 books, maps, &c. at very moderate prices. His wife, 

 remarkably handfome, as well as good humoured and 

 polite, furprifedme indeed ; wheti I made lome compli- 

 ment on her beauty and blooming looks, Ihe told me 

 file was the mother of twenty children. M. merchant 

 taylor, was Henry Mitman, Rue de Sien ; he ferved me 

 unexceptionably. Mr. Courhon, au Palais Marchand, 

 fupplied me with very fine, and indeed, coilly laced 

 rufRes, without any fort of impofition. 1 had feveral. 



■wigs a la mode, from Monfisar , at half the 



price tliey would have cofl either at Edinburgh or 

 London. I mull» not omit fincere acknowledgements 

 to my landlord and hoftefs at the hotel, for their civil 

 treatment and moderate charge. In fhort, I am con- 

 vjijced, that no traveller is in danger of being impofed 

 upon at Paris, if he is at due pains to inform himfelt con- 

 cerning the characler of the perfons with whom he deals. 

 Dealers at random with tradefmen and ftiopkeepers, are 

 no doubt in hazard of being cheated, but always in a 

 more polite and obliging manner than any where elfe. 



Though I believe Paris is the moil agreeable place 

 of reiidence for young and gay people, or even for lite- 

 rary men in perfeift health ; yet 1 do not think it a pro* 

 per place for valitudinarians. While there, I found 

 my health declining — The air can?iot be wholefome, 

 where one is offended, in alnioft every quarter, with dif- 

 agreeableor bad fmells — This, I believe is occalioned by 

 the narrow dirty (Ircets, and the univerfal praclice of 

 Irying cookeries, which about dinner time ol day, i& 

 feveral quarters, is almoll fuffocating. 

 To be continued. 



