218 Impracticability of seeing every Thing. 



the object which induced our journey, or the 

 time to which the completion of it is limited. 

 Should we be reproached with want of taste, or 

 commendable curiosity, we must rest our de- 

 fence on the impracticability of our seeing all 

 where there is so much deserving of notice. 

 We, however, as we proceed by day-light, have 

 no excuse for neglecting any thing which we 

 ought to see, lest we subject ourselves to the 

 reproachful inconvenience of our countryman, 

 who, on finding he had passed the Pont de Gard 

 in the dark, after travelling on fifty miles, re- 

 traced his steps for the purpose of seeing this 

 famous bridge and aqueduct. 



We spent a most delightful evening here 

 with the family connexions of the friends whom 

 we had just left. May I be pardoned in alluding 

 to a trifling occurrence, which had nearly, how- 

 ever, proved to have serious consequences. 

 Agreeably to my habit of opening my bed-room 

 window at night, in the act of taking out the 

 fastening, the upper sash fell, and my fingers 

 became so completely secured, that, being 

 ashamed to call for assistance, I was some 

 minutes before I could extricate them, with 

 less injury than, from the pain I endured, I 

 had reason to expect. As some years may 

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