Leaving this disagreable place very early, we arrive at the gates of _Bremen_ late at night, and are therefore obliged to lodge in the suburbs, till we could enter the town the next morning. It is a large and fair city, free of the empire, and one of the most considerable _Hanse_ towns, seated on the _Weser_, or _Visurgis_. Here we baited at the wine cellar over against the Exchange, where there is a magazine of good _Rhenish_, inferior in nothing but the quantity of vessels, and largeness of the stock, to that of _Hamburg_. We then proceed by nine a clock (after I had visited Mr. Willet, an English merchant) and on the farther side of the town cross the river under a noble gate, which in an inscription calls this VETVSTISSIMVS VISVRGIS TRAIECTVS. The _Weser_ is here fair, wide, and almost straight, affording a reception for the vessels belonging to the town; but those of a greater burthen are obliged to remain some leagues lower. At this river we now leave _Lower Saxony_, and enter the circle of _Westphalia_. In an hour and a half we come to _Delmenhorst_, an old town and castle belonging to the King of _Denmark_. From thence we proceed to _Wildeshusen_, a town in the dominion of the Elector of _Hanover_, where we lodge. January xxxi. We go on this day to _Klopperburg_, a town of the _Lower Bishoprick_ of _Munster_; from whence in a little time we reach the banks of the _Hase_, and in a few hours more the town thence called _Haselun_, where we take up our lodging that night. February i. We had hitherto found _Westphalia_ a desolate and wild country, overrun with heath, except here and there adorned with small groves of stately oak, in the middle of which we commonly found a single farm house, enclosed with rude pales like a park, which in summer time must be truly pleasant. In several places by the road side are seen posts, with iron boxes on the top, for the receipt of charity, as if the land it self confessed its poverty. However in this day’s journey the appearance began to alter, for about ten a clock we arrived at _Lingen_, a pretty compact and well built town, which lately belonged to King _William_, but now to the King of _Prussia_. The neighbourhood is well stored with woods; the skirts of the town adorned with frequent gardens, and alleys of trees orderly planted; and the whole place by a show of riches and beauty confessing, as it were, the benefit of a moderate and protestant government. Just beyond the limits of this town we cross the _Ems_, or _Amasia_, by a ferry boat, and afterwards continue our journey to _Northern_, the first town of the _United Provinces_, in the limits of which we now pass out of _Westphalia_ into _Overissel_. After a short bait we proceed to _Otmarsh_, and there lodge. This is the first place, since I left _Hamburg_, where I was offered a bed, having hitherto slept in my cloaths upon the straw. February ii.