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Hon: Sir Genoa Sept. 16 17. 1785 Friday

I reached Nice this day sennight a little before noon, and had
immediately the pleasure of receiving through the hands of Sr R. Herries's
correspondent there a fresh proof of your paternal care in the promise of
a letter of introduction from M. Simolin to the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople
upon my arrival at that place. I wrote to you from Brighthelmstone
Sunday the 7th August. I wrote again from Paris Sunday the 14 August: but
as the last mentioned letter was to go by Capt. Brooks whose departure I found afterwards
was not to be so speedy as I at first expected, it is possible you may not
have received it before you receive this. I sent you by the same channel some
antipodagneal cloathing for the extremities such as are not to be had in England. On
Monday the 8th of August about 109 o clock in the morning I reached Dieppe after a tolerable
passage of about 18 hours, sick whenever I stirred, easy so long as I neither
spoke, thought, nor stirred. I found difficulties in getting from Dieppe to Rouen greater
than I expected. I did not leave Dieppe till Thursday morning 11th and then I travelled
a franc-etrier as the phrase is on Post-horses with a courier not behind me as you would suppose, but before
me, for so ordereth the Law. I reached Rouen by dinner time and set off the next
day after dinner about 3 o clock in the Mail-diligence for Paris, travelled all night and got thither by
about 8 o' clock in the morning, where I found Mr Henderson and his nieces as
I expected. On Saturday morning immediately after the midnight of the Friday (it
requires some care to describe so ambiguous a time) we set out all four of us
in the Lyons Diligence by way of Sens Auxerre and Châlons: the price 100 livres
to Lyons, table and bed included, but exclusive of 2 great crowns to Coachmen &
one to Postillons. We reached Chalons on Tuesday by dinner-time; then & there migrated from
land to water and got to Lyons by Wednesday afternoon. On Friday morning (26)
we embarked on board the Diligence d'eau which falls down the Rhone for Avignon.
At the latter place we thought to have got a carriage for Montpelier: but we happen'd to meet
with an opportunity of that kind at Pont St Esprit a place where we stopped to sleep the
2d day (Sat. 27) about 24 or 25 miles short of Avignon. This carriage was a vile old rambling

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Date_1	1785-09-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
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