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Never did I so much lament my miserable morning:
Never have was I so much pleased with the conversation
of any man as I have been with that of Sr Joseph Yorke
I called on him this morning, and staid at least an
hour with him. He gave me the Characters of the
several people I am recommended to at Amsterdam
pointing out such as can be of use to me in giving
me information. I have been this hour writing
down scraps of usefull intelligence which I have
got from him.
He has just now returned my visit in the
way Embassadors and other great men return visits, by coming to the
door of my lodging and leaving a card.
I have been dining with him and since that
have been packing up my things and preparing
for packing up setting off in the
5 O'clock Trekschuit tomorrow morning
for Leyden, Harlem, & Amsterdam.
I have been so long in much longer than I
expected to be in Rotterdam that I shall not
be able to purchase anything at Harlem
or even to see any thing here or any where else
on my way to Amsterdam for want of money
as I have no credit till I get there.
I shall be reduced I believe to the last half
Ducat by the time I get clear of this Town
tomorrow morning. Nothing is cheap here
but travelling in the Trekschuits.
Sr Josh would have given me letters to some of
the people at Amsterdam to whom I have some
already if I had not had them. As it is, the
permission I have to make use of his name
to them is sufficient. [I forgett what occasion
I had to speak of Lind but upon the mention
of his name Sr Jos: & spoke of him
in the highest terms and as by far the best
political writer we have.]
[I have a great deal of writing of one kind or
other which I wish much to do, as well as to
fill this sheet for you; but it just 11 o'Clock
and I must be up at 4. Tomorrow in the
Trekschuit I hope to give you a little more.
8)
On board the Trekschuit in the Roof
Sr Chas Douglas before he sailed had written to
Sr Josh Yorke to beg him to stand Godfather for
a child he was in expectation of having about last
month. Sr Josh had written to lady Douglas; whence
a few days after he read in the newspaper of her
death.
There are so many Maisons de plaisance
along the side of the canal [our road] that I can
scarcely refrain from being idle enough to look at them.
We got to Leyden about 8 o'Clock and but as I wished
to see a little of so celebrated a place I determined
not to procede in the Trekschuit which was going
in half an hour from but rather to stay till
11 o'Clock. I was conducted bag & bagage
to an Inn where they spoke french. After having
eat some excellent bread & butter with cheese Sharing
I took a guide with me and went in pursuit of
le Professeur Rahn Kenius. He has got a comfortable
house enough for a Professor. I was glad
to find he could speak french which I had underst
from the people Master of the Inn that he could not. He
told me that he had received a letter from Schwede
but that as he had not given him his address, h
could not answer it: This was a quasi-Benthami
notwithstanding I made my observations In this omis
of the Drs: I did not remedy it. This was a true
Benthamism. I produced the memorandum wh
the Dr had given me on a scrap of paper and he
wrote a sentence in answer to it on the same paper,
Le voila "Mr Pilati demeure actuellement dans sa
"patrie, Trent, et y passera quelque temps."
I begd him to tell me what there was curious to
be seen in the Town in the 2 hours I had to stay,
and he directed my guide to take me to the Botaical
garden and collection of natural History, al
to what he called the Bourg which a kind of Tower
from which being elevated a few feet above the l
of the country afforded a pretty extensive prospect.
The collection of natural History appeared to be a
pretty good one with respect to variety but the stuff
Quadrupeds were most of them worn skin bare.
The botanical garden was much smaller than I
expected to have seen it and as to the collection
of plants I could judge very little of them as I
dont believe I know the names of half a dozen,
and I dare to say I could not remember the names of
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Samuel Bentham |
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