A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume 2 (1777)Thicknesse, Philip
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A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume 2 (1777)
Thicknesse, Philip
France -- Description and travel; Spain -- Description and travel
Those who travel post should, before they set out, put up in parcels the
money for the number of horses they use for one post, two posts, and a
post _et demi_, adding to each parcel, that which is intended to be
given to the driver, or drivers, who are intitled by the King's
ordinance to five _sols_ a post; and if they behave ill, they should be
given no more; when they are civil, ten or twelve _sols_ a post is
sufficient. If these packets are not prepared, and properly marked, the
traveller, especially if he is not well acquainted with the money,
cannot count it out while the horses are changing, from the number of
beggars which surround the carriage and who will take no denial.
XXXIV.
People of rank and condition, either going to, or coming from the
continent, by writing to PETER FECTOR, Esq; at _Dover_, will find him a
man of property and character, on whom they may depend.
LASTLY,
Valetudinarians, or men of a certain age, who travel into the southern
parts of France, Spain, or Italy, should never omit to wear either a
callico or fine flannel waistcoat under their shirts: strange as it may
seem to say so, this precaution is more necessary in the south of
France, than in England. In May last it was so hot at _Lyons_, on the
side of the streets the sun shone on, and so cold on the shady side,
that both were intolerable. The air is much more _vif_ and penetrating
in hot climates, than in cold. A dead dog, thrown into the streets of
Madrid at night, will not have a bit of flesh upon his bones after it
has been exposed to that keen air twenty-four hours.
FINIS.
[List of possible typos or transcriber changes:]
Ltr. 34 para. 2: monnments [monuments?]
Several inscriptions were blurred or missing in this source. Educated
guesses were made in a few cases.
Ltr. 36: This is what was visible to the transcriber:
L DOMIT. DOMITIANI
EX TRIERARCHI CLASS. GERM.
D PECCO****A VALENTINA M
CO*****ENTISSIMA.
Some characters blurred or missing. The full transcription was
entered from other sources.
Some of this looks wrong--e.g. the third line should probably begin P F,
rather than PE--but it matches the text as printed.
Ltr. 52 para. 2: Typo: that [than?]
Ltr. 54 para. 3: Typo: hundry [hungry?]
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