46/48 He had not a symptom of seasickness. Then he went on by easy stages through Aire, Bethune, Douay, Cambray, St.Quentin, La Fere, Laon, Rheims, Chalons, St.Dizier, Langres, Besancon, and arrived at Lausanne on the 27th. The inns he found more agreeable to the palate than to the sight or the smell. At Langres he had an excellent bed about six feet high from the ground. He beguiled the time with Homer and Clarendon, talking with his servant, Caplin, and his dog Muff, and sometimes with the French postilions, and he found them the least rational of the animals mentioned. |