2 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



the month of AugirKt 1791, when CommodofS 

 D'Entrecaitcai:x gave us notice to repair to 

 Brefl. I had the plcafure of performing this 

 journey with three pcrfons belonging to the 

 fame expedition, Citizens Riche, Beauprc, and 

 Pierfon. 



Wc arr>cd at Brefl on the loth'of Septem- 

 ber. The fineft thips of France, fuch as the 

 Majeftueux, the Etats de Bourgogne, the Ame- 

 rique, &c. were then in the harbour. 



While the aftronomers were occupied by ob- 

 ferrations for afcertaining the rate of going of 

 the watches and time-keepers, the naturaliits 

 battened to complete the articles neceffary for 

 tlic prefervation of the collections which they 

 purpofed making in the new countries that they 

 were going to vilit. 



As it was my intention to devote myfelf par- 

 ticularly to the obfervation of vegetables, I had 

 occafion for a quantity of paper, and I wifhed 

 to meet with ibme of a very large fize. I had 

 confiderable difficulty in procuring twenty-two 

 reams, becaufe almoit all that remained in ltorc 



1 recently been iflued for the fervice of the 

 artillery*. 



Part of the time that I had at my dilpofal 

 was employed in viliting the botanical garden, 



ich is kept in high order. In the fame place 

 there is a finall cabinet of natural hiftorv, in 



which 



