Had I been rich, I should have agreed with a coachman, who was just then setting out, and offered to carry me and my bassoon, in the basket, for sixteen shillings. But as riches are not always the companions of genius, I rather chose to take my place in a coal-vessel, which was to arrive at that city in three days. Here, as the weather was extremely fine when I sat out, I travelled very agreeably, for the first day, and dined upon bread and cheese, and cold bacon, without making any observations worth communicating to the public, except that I saw a man standing upon the bank, and angling for dace, notwithstanding the earliness of the season. The second day, as the wind suddenly changed from West to North-East, was foggy, rainy, and so exceedingly cold, that I was obliged, for want of Dr. MUS’s lousy blanket, to slip my legs and thighs into a coal-sack; we stopped about two o’clock at _Averley_, a little village on the banks of the _Severn_ to dine; and here I cannot but inform the world, that Mr. _Bangor_, at the sign of the _Goat in Boots_, is an extremely civil and polite landlord, and has no contemptible taste in music. When I informed him of my design in making this expedition, he very obligingly led me into his hall, which was stuck round with various antique pieces of music, such as _Chevy Chace_, _The Children in the Wood_, _Three Children sliding on the Ice_, _The history of St. George_, &c. which he kindly permitted me to enrich my collection with. I begged hard that he would permit me to prick out the notes of an incomparable whistle as he performed it, which at length with great difficulty he complied with, upon condition however that I should not print it. But I was more than all surprized and charmed with his generosity, in slipping a piece of fried cow’s heel into my pocket, and insisting upon treating me with a dram, before I went into the cold. As I walked down to the river side, I remarked a boy, who was humming the tune of _Yanky Doodle_; and as I knew this to be an extremely popular air in some parts of _America_, I conjectured that this part of _England_ was originally peopled from that continent. BRISTOL.