Had the following Pages required the exertion either of superior judgment, or of abstruse research, the Author is not sufficiently vain to have submitted them to the notice of the Public.
They are therefore not recommended to the perusal of the critical reader; as in fact, they contain merely the hasty observations suggested by the scenes he visited in the course of his Tour, together with a few occasional remarks, which he thought might be acceptable to the generality of readers: since notwithstanding the late increase of travellers, the numbers are still very great, who, being prevented by business, or deterred by the inconveniences of travelling, from visiting the Continent, might be disposed to pardon some inaccuracies, should they meet with a small portion either of amusement or information.
CONTENTS.
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Introduction—On the opening of the Continent—Departure from
London—Arrival in France—Different appearance of Things-Large
Bonnets—Custom House and Passports—Of Travelling in France—French
Dinners—Abbeville—Beauvais—Vines—Chantilly; its ruined