We stay at this place, employed in the care of transporting his Excellency’s equipage on the other side of the water; and in the mean time cannot but reflect with pleasure on the agreable tract of ground, which for five days we had passed thro in _Moesia Inferior_. A country, which (however decried by Ovid, and disparaged by our modern geographers) for the richness of its soil, variety of rising and falling ground, elegancy of prospect, and a competent provision of wood and water, is perhaps not to be paralleled by any other spot in the universe. But tho the whole tract of this country, which descends gradually from the foot of the _Haemus_ to the banks of the _Danube_, is rich both in arable and pasture ground; yet the inhabitants seem excessive poor, and are defended from the injuries of the weather by houses very meanly built. April xxi. His Excellency and his retinue this day pass the _Danube_, between _Tutracán_ and the mouth of the _Argisch_, about eight in the morning, at a passage about a mile broad. Upon landing, his Excellency was complimented from the Prince of _Valachia_ by his cousin german Count _Tomáso Cantacuzéno_, and was received by a guard of fifty men, and two coaches of six. In the finer of these his Excellency rode about a mile into _Valachia_, along the banks of the _Argisch_, and then alighting was entertained under three rich tents, sent likewise by the Prince for his reception. April xxii. His Excellency continued his journey about six hours thro the _Valachian_, a country which on this side is exactly level, and luxuriantly rich, but desolate for want of culture and inhabitants. In the road we meet with wooden crosses, erected in many places to excite the devotion of Christian travelers; as also a convent of monks about two hours short of our _conáck_, near which the _Argisch_ receives the chanel of the _Dembowitza_. At length we arrive at a miserable collection of cottages, scarce deserving the name of a village, but blessed with the convenience of a delicious and healthy water; where we find the tents both of the Prince and his Excellency ready pitched for his entertainment this evening. We were conducted hither by Count _Tomáso_, who undertook the care of the public _tain_ to be furnished for his Excellency. April xxiii. We proceed four hours thro a pleasant wood, enriched with _lilia convallium_, and other flowers; and at length pitch our tents at _Popest_, which in the _Valachian_ language signifies the same as _Priest-town_. Here about five in the evening his Excellency received an express by Baron _Minsheim_ from Count _Rabutin_, with the most unhappy news of the death of his Britannic Majesty, on the eighth past. April xxiv.