VoLTAIRE, 
Baron HALLER. 
Doctor Trew. 
Gale YM sp te yee RY eles 
till between one and two, when he returned, dined with his fa- 
tmily, and gave up the whole remainder of the day to them and 
his friends, whom he entertained with the moft agreeable and 
rational conyerfation. 
At Ferney, in the extremity of the fame province, I vifited 
that wicked wit Voltaire; he happened to be in good-humour, 
and was very entertaining; but, in his attempt to {peak Englifh, 
fatisfied us that he was perfect mafter of our oaths and our 
curfes. 
Tue forenoon was not the proper time to vifit Voltaire; he 
could not bear to have his hours of ftudy interrupted; this alone 
was enough to put him in bad humour, and not without reafon. 
Lefier people may have the fame caufe of complaint, when a 
lounger, who has no one thing to do, breaks on their hours of 
writing, eftimates the value of their time by his own, and di- 
verts their attention in the moft pretious hours of the rural 
morning. 
From Lyon I went to Grenoble and the Grand Chartreufe, Cham- 
berri, and Geneva, and from thence over the greateft part of 
Swifferland. At Bern 1 commenced acquaintance with that 
excellent man the late baron Haller, who, on every occafion, 
fhewed the utmoft alacrity to promote my purfuits. At Zurich 
with the two Ge/vers, the poet and the naturalift; the laft the 
defcendant of the great Conrad Gefner. 
Ulm and Aug/burg were the firft cities I vifited in Germany. 
Donawert, Nurenberg, Erlang, Bamberg, and Frankfort on the 
Maine fucceeded. At the declining city of Nurenberg I vifited 
doétor Ivew, a venerable patron of natural hiftory. At Mentz 
I embarked on the Rébime, and fell down that magnificent river 
Me 
