48 TRAVELS THROUGH 



From Nancy I went to Toul the 2 rfly a 

 city like Verdun, better known in hiftory 

 from the flagrant conduct of Louis XIV. 

 than from any thing curious contained in it. 

 The country about it is, on one fide, a plain, 

 and on the other, hilly. Oppofite the town, 

 the Mofelle forms an ifland, which, as well 

 as the neighbouring trads on the river, are 

 very rich meadow lands, in which I faw many 

 good cattle. Finding nothing much defer- 

 ving attention, here, I pumed forward for St. 

 Michael on the Meufe. But, before I quit 

 Toul, let me warn travellers from frequenting 

 the Fleur-de-Lis, which is truly an impudent 

 and moft extravagant inn, where I paid i6s. 

 for a miferable dim of {linking carp, and 

 lean beef fteakes, with a poor vin-du-pais, 

 pafled off for the beft Burgundy. 



It was with fome difficulty I reached St. 

 Michael by night, from the badnefs of the 

 roads, The country is, in general, covered 

 with corn fields ; the whole open field land 

 intermixed with fome commons. About 

 St. Julian, I remarked many orchards of 

 apples, which I had not feen before in this 

 part of France; and I found they made 



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