ifS TRAVELLING MEMORANDUMS, June 20 



and trading town, beautifully fitnated on the Saone — 

 Mv entertainment was good, and a moderate bill at the 

 Cheval Blanc — I have this day travelled forty-five'miles, 

 through a delightful and extenfive plain, abounding 

 with the richefl shapes of France, and in which fome 

 of th<= higheft growths of Burgundy are produced. 



OclobcT <^x\\. Bre.ikfafted at Sennecey, at the ufual 

 rate '>f one {billing EngHfh, or twenty-four fous — Din- 

 ed and put up all night at La Maifon Blanche -forty- 

 fevpn miles —On my journey this day, the face of the 

 country has varied confiderably — For thefirft two pofls, 

 it is bleak, without produflion of vines, or any other 

 crop except Turkilh corn, refembling tobacco — of this 

 ve faw various and extenfive fields — About half way 

 between Sennecey and ^ournus, we pafled a fteep hill, 

 from which a delightful profpe(n: opens down upon the 

 river Saone, and fine extended fields on each fide of it, 

 flill without large vineyards till we come near to this 

 f}age — On the latter part of this day's journey, I ob- 

 ferved fome fmall fields of turnip, and more than ordi- 

 nary jjood paflures — The turnip is not of the fame form 

 and fize as ours, but has a root like our parfnip and 

 carrot — Their cows are numerous, all white, which is 

 reckoned a bad colour in our breeding countries — They 

 are much employed in labour, both for carriages and 

 plowing, which is very flightly performed, by one 

 man. fometimcs by a woman, and two cows — In the 

 conrfe of this journey, I have not obferved any field of 

 {>ctatnes. though T am perfuaded they might have great 

 and ufefnl crops of them in their light grounds. 



I am habitually, if not naturally fhy in the compa- 

 ny of flr^ngprs — I do not remember, that in any part 

 ©f Britain, I ever was the firft to break filence to 

 ftrangers whom 1 accidentally met, from an apprehen- 

 fion, T fuppofe in general miftaken, of an unkind or 

 furly reception — From an opinion of French good hu- 

 irour, and cheerful politenefs, I have begun to take 

 the firft word with a ftranger, of which J have experi--. 



