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rambling Coach which with the same 3 horses brought us to Montpelier by way
of Nimes Desmoulins and Nimes on Monday evening 29th. On Tuesday at noon
I alone set out for the port of Cette about 20 miles distant in the mail-diligence
a tolerable kind of four wheel chaise which I had all to myself, in order
to enquire for vessels for Marseilles or then; met with none that I cared to trust to
and returned by the same conveyance at midnight, and travelling in the night got
back to Montpelier on Wednesday morning (31st) between 5 and 6 o' clock. Our carriage
from Pont St Esprit to Montpelier cost us 2 louis besides a great crown to the
Coachman: my jaunt to Cette and back again a most amusing and agreable one
in a thousand respects cost me for the vehicle but a great crown besides a voluntary fee of 1s to
the driver. On Thursday the 1st instant Sept: we set out from Montpelier for Marseilles
in another vile rambling Coach (spring-less like the first) dragged a snail's pace by
three mules. We went by way of Aix crossing the wooden bridge from Tarrascon
to Beaucaire, and by that means leaving Avignon unseen to our left, and afterwards
Toulon to our right. We reached Marseilles on Sunday 4th about noon,
found the sea-conveyances from thence too uncertain to be depended upon in our
circumstances, and accordingly on Tuesday 6th set off by land in a third
rambling vehicle called a Diable which not withstanding its name was less incommodious
and jolting than either of the two former. In this Diable we were drawn
by horses again not by mules and went now and then at the rate of between
4 & 5 miles an hour instead of going constantly at that of two. The Mule-carriage
from Montpelier to Marseilles cost us 3 louis and ½ a one to the Coachman:
the Diable 7 louis with the same fee. We took the Diable optionally
to leave us at Antibes the 3rd day or carry us on for another guinea by land to
Nice the next morning. On the Wednesday afternoon between Vidalban where we dined and Fréjus where
we slept the Diable play'd us a slippery trick: in crossing a bridge happily not a very
high one I should rather have called it a water-course, the Driver through carelessness
overturned us into the ditch on the left hand which happily proved a dry one. Miss

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Date_1	1785-09-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	196	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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