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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, and 
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 
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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-adotte, the officer 
msisting on seizing my black trousers because 
they were new and had not been worn ! The 
incident will probably grace the columns of 
“ Galignani ” or “ Punch!”’ He relates the starting 
nt half-past 5 a.m. from Havre to Caudebec, and 
n visit by Buckland and himself to Rouen and 
the Abbey of Jumieges. At Rouen they visited 
Pouchet and his museum, ‘ saw all the abbeys 
^nd churches,’ and reached Paris at five the same 
Any, where they were met by Pentland. 
On September 8, in another letter to his wife 
Written from Paris, he says : ‘ I postpone leaving 
