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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, etc ; 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 Mmes 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 wMch 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 a single man traveling in the United States, but 



