Rue de Seine

Petit Hotel d'Angleterre PARIS Thursday

Sept: r 15 th 1770.

Hon: d Sir

I am at length arrived at this place after meeting

with a variety of adventures, pleasing and disagreeable; mixing with

a variety of characters, admirable and contemptible; and undergoing

a variety of fatigues which would have killed some people, but seem

rather to have mended my health than impaired it — It is a great

happiness however that those of my adventures which have been of

the unpleasant kind have left no such consequences behind them;

and being singular to me however common in themselves, are now

become pleasant in the recollection how much soever otherwise

in the sufferance — I had once intended to have given you

a minute detail of my progress from my setting out to my

arrival, in my first letter; but I find it upon a little reflection

to be impossible; and that I then be spending all

my time in writing my history when I should be acting it — let

it suffice for the present that I sat out from London this

day sennight with M r Clark in his Fitiwhisky; got to Brighthemlston at noon on Friday, sat out from thence on Saturday

after parting with M r Clark in the morning - embark'd

on board the package boat on Saturday between 7 & 8 in the evening, after

parting with M r Clark in the morning — arrived at Dieppe

on Sunday about noon, and at this place yesterday about the

same time, on Horses, Asses, in Boats, ChamberPots, + and

+ Pots de Chambre, a kind of 2-wheeled 2-horsed voiture, clumsy to

the most exquisite perfection.

a floating kind of Black Hole, which in Calcutta must have

infallibly have been attended with the consequences of it there. out

of this time, I spent the greatest part of a day at Rouen, the

pleasantest, most stinking place I have ever seen.