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tainnient, to pay the ringers for their trouble. I 

 like wife obferved juft upon the harbour, and 

 not far from the town, a large and very ancient 

 building, which was made ufe of for an inn, 

 but did not feem to have been built for that 

 purpofe I was told, that it was the remains of 

 a celebrated abby of the Benediclines. 



I mould have been well pleafed to take the tour 

 of Plymouth and the country about it, but the' 

 Chevalier de Fontenay advifed me againft it ; 

 becaufe every thing was then fufpected in England, 

 on account of the affair of the bifhop of Rochef- 

 ter, which was dill recent. I could not, indeed, 

 appear in my habit at Plymouth, or in places that 

 were inhabited, without being expofed to fome 

 infult, and it was too late to put on another drefs, 

 feveral of the Englifh having feen me in my own, 

 fo that I was reduced to the neceffity of walking on- 

 ly in fome fields near the harbour, where nobody 

 was to be met with. I had, however, good com- 

 pany on board the Thetis. The Chevalier de 

 Fontenay has been all over the world, and has 

 befides, an underftanding extremely well culti- 

 vated. I have feen and heard of him, inftance s 

 of a generofity truly heroick. But what crowns 

 all thefe eftimable qualities, is a great fund of 

 religion and fincere piety. He feems to have 

 communicated his fentiments to his officers, 

 whom I faw almoft all of them prefent at the 

 facraments, and nothing can be more edifying 

 than his whole crew, by whom he is adored. 



At laft, on Chriftmas night, after I had cele- 

 brated three mafTes, we fet fail, and the whole day 

 had a fair wind. Two frigates of fifty guns each 

 had weighed anchor two hours before us, which 



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