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this particular ; as a conveyance is to be met with al- 

 moft every day. I engaged a woman to be my pour- 

 voyeufe, to whom I delivered three times a week a lift 

 of the things I was in want of ; and they were regularly 

 brought to the houfe. By way of recompence 1 gave 

 her each time, at my own difcretion, a few pence; 

 with which fhe was always perfectly fatisfled. In this- 

 manner all kinds of proviflbri, fueh as meat, fiHi, fruit, 

 coffee, fugar, oil, he. are fetched from Toulon. Even 

 ink I could no where buy in Hie res. But all forts of 

 garden ftufF are here to be had in great abundance ; and 

 the bread is the beft I ever tailed. Wood is fomewhat 

 fcarce ; and is fold by the hundred weight ; the hun- 

 dred weight at nine fous. 



Downwards to the plain, and on the plain itfelf, 

 particularly in the narrow vale that runs to Toulon, 

 the city is furrounded with innumerable gardens and 

 orchards ; in each of which is a baftide ; that is, a 

 dwell i n g -ho ufe , of different dimenfions, according to 

 the circumflances of the owner ; but always fubfian- 

 tially built. The orchards lying neareft the city are 

 moftly planted only with lemon and orange trees, and 

 are inclofed with lofty walls. Between thefe walls run 

 a number of lanes and allies in all directions ; fo that 

 the whole is like a great labyrinth, through which a 

 ftranger does not eafily find his way. This renders his 

 rambles about the town rather difficult, flnce, before 

 he can get into any open place, he muft extricate him- 

 felf as well as he can from this labyrinth. 



Thefe orange and lemon orchards are moftly culti- 

 vated with a view to profit ; and therefore the trees are 

 planted as clofe together as poffible. That in which I 



lived 



