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man, for whom I had a letter from Hooker; thence 
after looking in vain for “appartements garnis” in 
Rue de l’Odéon, Place de ’Odéon, ete., I secured my 
lodgings here, where I shall be obliged to hear nothing 
but French, and where I hope I may catch some of 
the language, and after dining at the ordinary at the 
Hotel de Lille, where English is spoken, I transferred 
myself to my present quarters. But my sheet is full. 
I will give you another very soon. Till then, mes 
cheéres petites sceurs, adieu. 
Wednesday evening, March 20. —I must continue 
my letter to you on a large sheet of thin French paper, 
else I shall have a larger bill of postage to pay than 
will be altogether convenient when I send to Havre. 
I did not write last evening; I had no fire in my room, 
and after running about all day over streets paved 
with little square blocks of stone, which it is very 
fatiguing to walk over, I came home fairly tired, and 
went to bed soon after nine o’clock. Except calling 
on M. Delessert, for whom I had a letter and a small 
parcel from Hooker, and whom I did not find at home, 
I spent the whole day in looking about the town, see- 
ing sights, ete. My first call was at the Louvre, a 
large and splendid palace, where I spent an hour or 
two in the vast gallery of paintings, which fill a very 
large salon and a long gallery, I suppose five hundred 
or six hundred feet long, connecting the Louvre with 
the palace of the Tuileries. . . . 
To-day I have been wholly occupied at the Jardin 
des Plantes. Fortunately for me Jussieu speaks a 
little English, so I can get on with him pretty well. 
But you would have been amused at the attempts 
which M. Decaisne and M. Gaudichaud! and myself 
1 Beaupré Charles Gaudichand, 1780-1854; French botanist. Went 
