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is keen in proportion to the recollection of recent discomfort or 

 distress ; but I shall say nothing of the converse of this ; having 

 little to do with that branch of the subject at present. Dryden 

 has condensed the idea in five words — 



" ' Sweet is pleasure after pain.'" 



Indeed the sensations of my friend and myself, when at length we 

 found ourselves clean and confortaWe in M. Chaperon's pleasant 

 parlour, were much to be envied. Sweet, very sweet was our 

 shave, and our bath, and the feel of cool linen, and the sense 

 of total renovation pervading our whole persons — but, shade of 

 Apicius ! how exquisite the Gunpowder and Pekoe tasted after 

 rancid pork and garlic ! 



" On our way from the shore we cast our hungry eyes on a 

 salmon, just come in with the tide, and floundering in a net ; we 

 incontinently licked our lips and purchased him. When we reach- 

 ed the house our servant handed the fish over to Madame Cha- 

 peron, with instruction to broil it for our breakfast — not alive, 

 but as near as might be. Our toilet being finished we drew the 

 table to the Window, into which a rosebush in full bloom was 

 peering from a flower-garden underneath. There, amidst the 

 mixt aromata of flower, and fish, we commenced an attack on a 

 pyramid of toast fit to form a new apex to that of Cheops — nu- 

 merous dainty prints of fresh butter, some half gallon of thick 

 cream, and half a bushel of new laid eggs — which was kept up 

 vigorously for a couple of hours. 



" On Monday morning, July the 5th, we engaged a caliche 

 with a good-looking Canadian boy, named Louis Panet, to at- 

 tend us on our daUy visits to the Chute, about six miles distant. 

 The road up the valley is very good, following the winding 

 course of the river, and overhung on the other side by green glo- 

 bular hills, very steep in many places. These are covered with 

 a thin soil, which often after rain peels oif in large patches, car- 

 rying down trees, fences, flocks, and even the houses, " in hi- 

 deous ruin and combustion" to the bottom. One of these fright- 

 ful iboukments had fallen across our road lately, and the coun- 

 try people were still busy in clearing away the rubbish. 



