Generally speaking, the fare at the _table d’hôte_ throughout Provence is bountiful and excellent, with perhaps too often, and too strong, a trace of garlic, and considerably more than a trace of olive-oil. At Aix, Arles, Avignon, and Orange one gets an imitation of a Parisian _table d’hôte_ at all of the leading hotels; but in the small towns, Cavaillon, Salon, Martigues, Grimaud, or Vence, one is nearer the soil and meets with the real _cuisine du pays_, which the writer assumes is one of the things for which one leaves the towns behind. At Marseilles, and all the great Riviera resorts, the _cuisine française_ is just about what the same thing is in San Francisco, New York, or London,--no better or no worse. As for price, the modest six or eight francs a day in the hotels of the small towns becomes ten francs in cities like Aix or Arles, and from fifteen francs to anything you like to pay at Marseilles, Cannes, Nice, or Monte Carlo. VI. THE METRIC SYSTEM METRICAL AND ENGLISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Mètre = 39.3708 in. = 3.231. 3 ft. 3 1-2 in. = 1.0936 yard. Square Mètre (mètre carré) = 1 1-5th square yards (1.196). Are (or 100 sq. mètres) = 119.6 square yards. Cubic Mètre (or Stere) = 35 1-2 cubic feet. Centimètre = 2-5ths inch. Kilomètre = 1,093 yards = 5-8 mile. 10 Kilomètres =6 1-4 miles. 100 Kilomètres = 62 1-10th miles. Square Kilomètre = 2-5ths square mile. Hectare = 2 1-2 acres (2.471). 100 Hectares = 247.1 acres. Gramme = 15 1-2 grains (15.432). 10 Grammes = 1-3d oz. Avoirdupois. 15 Grammes = 1-2 oz. Avoirdupois. Kilogramme = 2 1-5th lbs. (2.204) Avoirdupois. 10 Kilogrammes = 22 lbs. Avoirdupois. Metrical Quintal = 220 1-2 lbs. Avoirdupois. Tonneau = 2,200 lbs. Avoirdupois. Litre = 0.22 gal. = 1 3-4 pint. Hectolitre = 22 gallons. [Illustration: _Comparative Metric Scale_] ENGLISH AND METRICAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Inch = 2.539 centimètres = 25.39 millimètres. 2 inches = 5 centimètres nearly. Foot = 30.47 centimètres. Yard = 0.9141 mètre. 12 yards = 11 mètres nearly. Mile = 1.609 kilomètre. Square foot = 0.093 mètre carré. Square yard = 0.836 mètre carré. Acre = 0.4046 hectare = 4,003 sq. mètres nearly. 2 1-2 acres = 1 hectare nearly. Pint = 0.5679 litre. 1 3-4 pint = 1 litre nearly. Gallon = 4.5434 litres = 4 nearly. Bushel = 36.347 litres. Oz. Troy = 31.103 grammes. Pound Troy (5,760 grains) = 373.121 grammes. Oz. Avoirdupois = 8.349 grammes. Pound Avoirdupois (7,000 grains) = 453.592 grammes. 2 lbs. 3 oz. = kilogramme nearly. 100 lbs. = 45.359 kilogrammes. Cwt. = 50.802 kilogrammes. Ton = 1,018.048 kilogrammes. VII. [Illustration: The Log of an Automobile] INDEX OF PLACES Agay, 286-287, 288. Agde, 20. Aigues Mortes, 28, 93. Aix, 5, 17, 18-19, 31, 101, 156-160, 161, 165, 173, 215, 250, 322, 412, 424, 425, 426, 429. Allauch, 134. Anthéore, 288-289. Antibes, 101, 305-306, 308-312, 330, 412, 429.