FROM PETERSBURG 
the chance of a bed. Every thing he may want 
must therefore be taken with him. A pewter 
tea-pot will prove of more importance than a 
chest of plate; and more so than one of silver, 
because it will not be stolen, and may be kept 
equally clean and entire. To this he will add, 
a kettle ; a saucepan, the top ot which may be 
used for a dish; tea, sugar, and a large cheese, 
with several loaves of bread made into rusks, 
and as much fresh bread as he thinks will keep 
till he has a chance of procuring more. Then, 
while the frost continues, he may carry frozen 
food, such as game or fish, which, being con- 
gealed, and as hard as flint, may jolt about among 
his kettles in the well of the carriage without any 
chance of injury. Wine may be used in a cold 
country ; but never in a hot, or even in a tem- 
perate climate, while upon the road. In hot 
countries, if a cask of good vinegar can be pro- 
cured, the traveller will often bless the means 
by which it was obtained. When, with a 
parched tongue, a dry and feverish skin, he 
has to assuage his burning thirst with the bad 
or good water brought to him, the addition of 
a little vinegar will make the draught delicious. 
Care must be taken not to use it to excess , fox 
it is sometimes so tempting a remedy against 
somnolency, that it is hardly possible to resist 
using the vinegar without any mixture of water. 
