i6 TRAVELS INTO 
I had never feen in France. Every thing 
in it appeared to me extremely rare, and 
to be in a ftate of the higheft preferva- 
tion. His noble place for breeding birds 
alfo exhibited, in an admirable feries, a dou- 
ble view of nature and art, united to over- 
come the effeds of climate. There the en- 
chanted eye may admire alive the moft 
beautiful and leaft known individuals of 
every fpecies ; and there one may fee," by 
the afliduous care beftowed upon them, birds 
the moft diftant and the moft remote from 
one another multiply and propagate, as if 
they lived in their native countries. This 
fight, I confefs, ftill ferved to redouble my 
ardor; and completely fortified me againft 
every obftacle, and againft all thofe dangers 
which I had refolved to encounter. 
Having foon formed an intimate friend- 
ship with Mr. Temminck, he fhewed me 
every mark of attention and kindnefs. As 
he had it in his power, more than any one 
elfe, to favour my defign, I did not hefitatc 
to communicate it to him. Being fo con- 
genial with his own purfuits, he highly ap- 
proved of it ; and pointed out thofe means 
which 
