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fadurers or fhop-keepers — lb on ordinary week- 

 days, the ftreets appear almofl empty — but on fundays 

 and holidays, we fee a prodigious population. 



I am very defirous to proceed on my journey, partly 

 on horfeback — I am told, that in this country tfiey have 

 a good breed of faddle-horfes, and they deal wit!i Swit- 

 zerland for fcrviceable horfes — Monlieur Taye aflills 

 me in treating with a great and reputable dealer— He 



'informs me of an agreeable, eafv, and cheap mode of 

 travelling from here to Avignon by wattr in two days 

 and a half — I fliall confider of it — if I cannot find a 

 proper horfe for my ufe, which indeed id difficult: 

 " A horfe I a horfe ! my kingdom for a horle I" 

 1 hire a good carriage here at the rate of twelve livres 



per day — My landlady is an excellent perfon ; I have 

 not been in an hotel where the accommodation is more 

 commodious Hud elegant, the entertainment better, an4 

 the attention to a traveller more agreeable. 

 To he continued. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Notice of the early knowledge of the nautical ufes of po- 

 larity of the Magnet, 

 Sir, 

 As I denre to fee your excellent journal holding a high 

 place among the periodical publications of Europe, and 

 doing honour to that country, to illuftrate which has 

 ever been my highell ambition, I ficely impart to yoa 

 the dopy of a very curious manufcript, in the King of 

 France's libriirv, written by Guvot de Frovins, an old 

 French poet, about the year 1180, which proves the 

 nautical ufe of the polarity of the Magnet to have been 

 known and ufed long before the days of Marco Polo the 

 Venetian, or Fla<nb de Gioia ; fince a poet is feldom 

 like a Bee, tp gather honey very early in the morning, 

 and to be the firft like your's to give literary intelli- 

 gence — I am, Sir, with regard, your fincere well-wiftier, 



- Albanicus. 



