[53] Shops.

    [54] Give for gif, if.

The day before I left Paris, being according to the French account the 5 of May, according to the Scots the 25 of Aprill, Mr. Kinloch wt his wife and daughter Magdalen took Mr. Mein, Mr. Dick,[55] Mr. Moor and me in coach 4 leagues of Paris to Ruell to sie the waterworks their, which wtout controll be the best of any about Paris, by the way we passed thorow one of the pleasantest woods or Parks that ever my eyes did sie, called the Park of Boloigne.  We saw Madrid also, but not that in Spaine; the occasion of the building wheirof was this:  Francis, one of the kings of France, became Spaines prisoner, who demanded ...[56] ransome 8 milions.  The french king payes him 4, and ...[56] promises him upon the word of a king that having once lifted it in France he sould come in person to Madrid and pay it.  Thus vinning home he caused build a stately house a litle from Paris, which he named Madrid, and so wrot to the Spaniard that he had bein at Madrid and payed what he owed, according to that, ’qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare’ We saw also Mount Calvary, which the Deluded Papists will have to be the true representative of that Calvary wheir our Saviour suffered:  its situate at that same distance from Paris that the true’s from Jerusalem, of that same hieght, and so in all the circumstances.

    [55] This may be James Dick, who was born in the same year as Lauder,
        1646, afterwards Sir J. Dick of Priestfield, Lord Provost of
        Edinburgh, and created a baronet.

    [56] Page torn.

Thus we come to Ruell, wheir so many gallant sights offered themselfes that I know not wheir to begin; first the pleasant ponds abounding wt fishes of divers sorts, as carps, picks, etc., comes to be considred.  But the rich waterworks are the main commendation of the place.  It is not to be forgotten whow finely the fellow that showed us them, and set them on work by his engines did wet Mr. Dick, and followed him in the litle house (the Grotto) whethersoever he could stir.  The thing that mainly moved my admiration was the hie ascendance of the water:  what secret hidden power could carry the water clean contrary to its natural inclination which is to deschend, as every other heavy body, so hy that in some of them a man wt a speir could not reach its top.

The most wonderfull thing ever I saw is the infinit art that some curious painter hath showen on a large timber broad, standing in a corner of the yard:  a small distance from it their is a revell put up which makes it appear the more lively, so that we win no nearer then the revell would let us.  At this distance ye would think ye saw the heavens thorow the wal on the other syde of it, so wonderously is the blew skie drawen; so that bring me a man without acquainting him wt the devce he sal constantly affirme he sies the lift on the other syde of the wall.  On the same broad beneath the skie on the earth, as ye would