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souvenir; took my breakfast, a very substantial one, 
consisting in part of delicate trout from the stream 
which issues from the fountain ; left at eleven, arrived 
at Avignon again at half past two; saw the Requien 
museum of antiquities, which is rich, the paintings, the 
little botanic garden; saw also Requien’s library and 
collection of plants, ete; made arrangements for cor- 
respondence ; climbed the rocky hill which overlooks 
the town and river; enjoyed the view; visited the ca- 
thedral (a small affair) which stands upon it; saw the 
old papal palace, now converted into a prison ; returned 
to the Hotel Palais Royal, and a most excellent hotel 
it is, which I hope you will patronize the first time you 
come to Avignon; dined at seven, having first secured 
a place in the diligence for Nimes at ten o’clock this 
evening, where I hope to arrive by daylight and be 
ready to go on the same day to Montpellier, where I 
prefer to pass the Sabbath. Now I think this is do- 
ing pretty well... . 
MonTPELLIER, Saturday evening, April 20, 1839. 
At twelve o’clock I left Nimes; rode through a 
highly fertile and level country, mostly occupied with 
vineyards, getting now and then a distant view of 
the mountains of Cevennes on the right, and soon of 
the Pic San Loup, by which I knew we were not very 
far from Montpellier. At this last place we arrived 
at five o’clock precisely, and here I am quartered at 
the most comfortable hotel imaginable, the Hotel du 
Midi. All my stopping-places being indicated to me 
by Bentham, I have no difficulty in choosing where to 
stop. Here you are not put into a little seven by nine 
chamber up five pairs of stairs, as is the inevitable lot 
of asingle man traveling in the United States, but 
