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man, for whom I had a letter from Hooker ; thence 

 after looking in vain for " appartements garnis " in 

 Kue de I'Odeon, Place de I'Odeon, etc., 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 

 cheres 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 

 wiU 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, etc. 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 Beaupr^ Charles Gaudiehaud, 1780-1854 ; French botanist. Went 



