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Caen in Normandy
July 27th 1775
Dear Jere,
To one, who, I am to hope & who I imagine, is engaged in the Depths
of Study for your own advantage & your Country's Good, this Country can
produce nothing worthy of your Interruption, unless the knowledge of our being
safely arriv'd here & agreably situated be considered as such; a Passage
of Seven hours brought us over from Dover to Calais, which we all of us
weather'd surprisingly well, except your Mother who it may be said
paid for all in the sacrifice she made to the Sea by Sickness —
Farr was a little sick but scarce worth mentioning I & your
two other Brothers were not at all — as you have been yourself the
same road yt we have done except from Abbeville to Dieppe it is of
little use to give you any account the distance between those two
places is what chiefly added to our Journey & in what we cod have
wished to avoid if possible — when we got to Rouen, we were so charmed
with it, yt we cod not help regretting, we were not got to the end of
our Journey & had any further to go, we passed one whole Day there
& left it with some reluctance — and on Sunday the 2d Instant arrived here in
one Day, wch is near ninety miles & during our whole Journey, by
Land we found our Coach of the greatest use to us, in point of
convenience as well as in regard to yr expence it saved me; & to
my great surprise as well as satisfaction it escaped the business
of being shipped at Dover & relanded at Calais & thro' the rough
roads hither almost to a Miracle — & its now lies very safe & quiet
in a Coach house near us, being determined not to use it till our
return, as what I shall save it keeping Horses, & having a Coachman
will contribute something against the amount of Extra Expences of the
excursion hither — I & your Mother with our Two servants (
& his Wife) have a very convenient separate appartment, in a good House
belonging to a young Gentleman & his Wife, very agreeable & conversible
Persons, where we keep House, by ourselves, & are in every respect of
that sort as much at home, as if in Queen's Square Place, the
situation of our House is as it were in the Suburbs, & has a pretty
garden behind it, at the end of wch there is a brow that opens
the Fields, which you may imagine your Mother & I make
good use of by our frequent Walks. Farr boards in the Town, with
a Monsr <add> & Madame </add> Dagainey the Father & Mother of the Lady of our House —
your Brother is chez Monsr Le Hardy, who with his wife, are very
agreeable People & Charges board at a third place a Monsieur
Maipant, Professeur de Rhetoric, a most ingenious & agreeable
man, who tho' a Catholic by profession is a man of very liberal
sentiments, & has an excellent Library, consisting of the best of our
English Authors, as well as French & the best Editions of Each
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