CHAP. XIV.

Executions at present uncommon.—Mission preached at Avignon.—An account of the Missionnaires.—An old French officer.—The author makes acquaintance with the grandson of the President de Montesquieu.—Election of a deputy.—Henry Kenelm visits England.—On theatres and comedians.—The author's son returns to Avignon.—His journey detailed.—He copies an Infant Jesus after Raphael.—Fine season.—Ice required at a ball.—Olives.—Artificial grasses.—Haricots.—The French agriculture described.—Vines.—Silk-worms.—Mulberry trees stripped of their leaves.—Threshing-floors.—Abattoir for slaughtering cattle.

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CHAP. XV.

Intended journey to Italy.—Character and studies of Henry Kenelm.—He resolves on the military profession.—Fair of Beaucaire.—Visit to Arles.—Ancient buildings.—St. Remy.—Cross the Durance.—Deficiency of gooseberries, strawberries, &c.—Cherries.—Mausoleum.—Triumphal arch.—Bière de Mars.—Maison des Fous.—Return to Avignon.

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CHAP. XVI.

Joûte d'eau on the Rhone.—Henry Kenelm is seized with fever.—The disorder at first is mistaken by the physician, who afterwards perseveres in a wrong treatment although he discovers it to be the typhus fever.—Symptoms.—Delirium.—The author's second son falls sick, and is neglected by Roche the physician.

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CHAP. XVII.