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though Florence she had not seen ; but the houses of 

 Bath she found elegant, the streets beautiful, the pros- 

 pects enchanting, and she alighted from her post-chaise 

 at the York House. To her and Mrs. Thrale, as they 

 were in the act of alighting, entered instantly Sir Philip 

 Jenning Clerke " with his usual alacrity to oblige," and 





High Street, Bath. 



told them of lodgings on the South Parade. Mrs. Thrale 

 immediately hired a house at the left corner. " It was 

 deliciously situated," Miss Burney tells us. " We have 

 meadows, hills, Prior Park, the soft-flowing Avon, what- 

 ever Nature has to offer, I think, always in our view." 

 So ends pleasantly what seems to have been a pleasant 



