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.
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.
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.
CHAP. XVII.