Page images
PDF
EPUB

and difpofition from the fame fort of perfonages of
the British empire---Adventure of the bird catcher
and his Canary---Cleves fair, aud frolling mu
ficians---The family ducat---and a circumstance
which the reader will perufe, for his own fake,
more than once.

p. 139.

LETTER LXVÍ.

A week's excurfion in the nooks and corners of dif
ferent countries---Scenery---manners---hofpitality---
cheapnefs---accommodations, &c.---The windings
of the imagination---The Maife and Rhine---A
noble cafile, and a nobler chaplain, one of its
inhabitants---Imitations for Englifhmen---The Pont
Volant---The peafant pilgrims---A hill--- A valley
---After gleaning which, the author goes farther
into the country by every paffible direction, and
journeys with his reader and friend, he hopes
without weariness---A fet of Weftphalian day-
Labourers at dinner---May the reader be as con-
tent and as grateful for more cofly fare-
The liberty enjoyed in the Pruffian dominions---
and the abundance of the peasants, notwithstand-
ing their difaffection, and the poverty of which
they complain---The difficulties of the Pruffian
NoblefeTheir hardships---The beautiful little
Signiory of Boxmeer, by favour of a friend's
communication---Its fingular fituation-Its per
culiar

3

« EelmineJätka »