a^a TRAVELLING MEMORANDUMS. June 2f 



Odober 6th. Breakf^fted at Si. George^s — a paltry 



village, where the landlady attempted to impole on me 



unlucceisfully — In the afternoon, 1 arrived at Lyons 



At Paris, I had been recommended to the hotel d'Ar- 

 tois ; but 1 have no realbn to repent, that, as advifed 

 on the road, I went to tlie hotel de la pays — The coun- 

 try through which i have this day palled, is finely di- 

 ' veifified by hills moflly covered with vines to the tops 

 «— vallies of corn fields interlpcrfed with vineyards — 

 and a more, extenfive track of meadow and pallure 

 grounds along the banks of the beautiful river Saone, 

 than I have yet feen — Some attempts to inclofe with 

 thorn hedges appear — they have milcarried for want of 

 Ikill and care — There is a Ihew of trees over the face 

 ©t the country, and on fome hills; but not being fen- 

 ced, they are not thriving. 



The city of Lyons and its environs, as we approach, 

 irake a glorious appeaiance — wild and romantic, yet 

 liighly cultivated and populous — Near the city, I faw, 

 for the firft time on this road, a field of fine clover, 

 which would certainly be one valuable product tor the 

 country — The French have this evident advantage over 

 lis in Britain, that they may profit by ouj- example in 

 the culture of grafs and gram, and in improvements by 

 jnclofures and planting — whereas we can derive no ad- 

 vanlage by their Ikill and experience in the manage- 

 ment of vines. 



October 7th. This dav I prefented my letter of re- 

 eomu.tndation aid credit from Monlieur Mary to 

 Meffrs. Andrew Taye and Company here — Mr Tayeis 

 a nian of fenfe, of very obi ging manners, and agree- 

 able converfation — He and other gentlemen of this place " 

 confirm my purpole of rtfiding, tor molt part of the 

 "winter, at Hytrcs, as a climate almoft invariably mild 

 and ferene — They reckon two hundred thoufand people 

 in this liry — It is a cuirmon obfervation, that at Mar~ 

 failles, where the occupations of the people are more 

 in trade, than in m.tnufaftures, great numbers appear 

 every day on the ftreets — but here they are all man;;* 



