980 
lage inns, indeed, one rarely pays more, 
but when I say one may be perfectly com- 
fortable in such places, it is to be under- 
stood that they are not measured exactly 
by the same standard, and that in point of 
furniture and appearance at least, we should 
not be contented with precisely the same 
&ccommodation in a town. In the larger 
cities, on the other hand, we must expect 
to pay two francs, or if occupying a cham- 
ber on the first floor, perhaps three. At the 
Hotel de France at Nantes, they demand 
three francs for all the front rooms, whether 
on the first or second story. In the South 
of France you usually pay more for apart- 
ments with boarded floors, but in Brittany 
all the floors are boarded. The practice 
of using the bed-chamber as a sitting-room, 
is perhaps not quite consonant to English 
prejudices, yet when accustomed to it, the 
traveller will find its advantages. His 
trunk being both his library and wardrobe, 
it is convenient to find these two requisites 
in the same place, and as the bed-rooms 
are provided with a writing-table, at least, 
or usually with a sécretaire, he has about 
him all that he wants. In England the 
bed-chambers are not furnished as sitting- 
rooms, and if the traveller engages a se- 
parate apartment, he feels it a sort of duty 
to spend considerably more than he other- 
wise would do, and at last may have the 
bed-room and sitting-room in different 
parts of the house. . 
The Table d’héte is at a fixed price, va- 
rying in different hotels from two and a 
half to three francs, and in a few places on 
the great roads three and a half, or more, 
where they are calculated for the English 
traveller. In Brittany the wine is included 
in the price of the dinner. 
ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL 
t for a déjeuner 
à la fourchelte, and thirty sous for the 
café taken after the dinner, and for some 
EXCURSION INTO BRITTANY. 
at least ten sous per day—I have usually 
given about fifteen, but varying from 
to twenty, according to the service 
up the charges to nine francs per i 
Travelling in the coupé of a good diligence 
costs about twelve sous and a half a league 
(five shillings, or two-pence half-penny per 
mile), in the interior ten, including every 
thing. In the smaller voitures the price — 
is lower. For a cabriolet it is necessary 
to make your bargain, for as they are hardly 
charges accordingly. The best way is to 
apply at the Poste aux Chevauz, where, if 
they demand a little more than you might 
obtain the cabriolet for elsewhere, still the 
With a driver, and the owner clearing . 
all expenses, I have usually paid from. 
eight to nine francs per diem, and from us 
to fifteen sous over as a pour boire tothe 
driver ; but where there is no competition, 
you will not obtain it for this sum, and I 
have failed sometimes in offering tw ” 
he cabriolets obtained in this way all over 
France, are miserable vehicles; but in Brit- 
tany they are always on springs, and may 
serve for short distances. m" 
Supposing, then, the traveller to we 
round of three hundred leagues 1D i : 
gence, and to spend forty days on his tour, ; 
the expences will be— p.e 
Forty days at nine francs per day 360 
Three hundred leagues at twelve i 187 10 
and a half sous 
Cabriolets for ten days ....-.--:** 
Porters and occasional expenses } P p 
and extra charge for luggage— a 
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