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Basle, October 6 till further advice, Cologne. 

 Of his letters, which are mainly descriptive, one 

 to his son, dated Paris, September 4, 1845, an d 

 illustrated with sketches of a van drawn by six 

 horses, and of a fountain, tells all about the 

 King's palace and gardens, where, he says, every- 

 body behaves very well ' and no one plucks 

 flowers.' To his wife he writes on the same 

 day : ' I have not had time till now to write 

 more than one note (for Sir Jas. Graham), ex- 

 tracted from me bv Buckland when exhausted 

 by fatigue and past midnight, which is the con- 

 sequence of dear B.'s incessant activity and de- 

 termination that neither he nor anyone shall 

 rest till they have seen all that can, should, 

 or might be seen. . . . [At Havre] we went to 

 the Douane to see our luggage passed, and I 

 had nearly been made a sans-culotte, the officer 

 insisting on seizing my black trousers because 

 they were new and had not been worn ! The 

 incident will probably grace the columns of 

 1 ' Galignani " or " Punch ! " ' He relates the starting 

 at half-past 5 a.m. from Havre to Caudebec, and 

 a visit by Buckland and himself to Rouen and 

 the Abbey of Jumieges. At Rouen they visited 

 Pouchet and his museum, ' saw all the abbeys 

 and churches,' and reached Paris at five the same 

 day, where they were met by Pentland. 



On September 8, in another letter to his wife 

 written from Paris, he says : ' I postpone leaving 



