modern Greece—Trinacria—Malta—arrival at Tunis—face
of the country—manner of celebrating the Mahometan
ramadan or Lent—the natives—ruins of the aqueduct of
Carthage—description and chronological anecdotes of
the city of Tunis—ruins of Carthage.
LET. XLV. From Genoa.—Description
of Genoa and its inhabitants
—Cizisbeis,
the nature of their employment, and
occasion
of their institution—the government—palaces
—paintings—remark
on their fondness for the
representation
of crucifixes—church of St Lawrence,
and
the famous emerald plate—their churches
not to be
compared
with the Sancta Sophia at Constantinople.
LET. XLVI. From Turin.—Character
of Turin, its palaces and
churches—Lady
M. waits on the queen—persons of the
king
and prince of Piedmont described.
LET. XLVII. From Lyons.—Journey
from Turin to Lyons—passage over
mount
Cenis—the frontier towns between Savoy and
France.
LET. XLVIII. From Lyons.—Reflections
on the insipidity of female
visits—the
inscriptions on brass tables on each side
of
the town-house at Lyons—remains of antiquity—
cathedral
of St John—critique on the statue of Louis
XIV.
LET. XLIX. From Paris.—Miserable
condition of the French
peasants—palace
of Fontainbleau—fair of St
Lawrence—opera
house—general character of the French
actors—comparison
between the French and English
ladies.
LET. L. Paris.—General
remarks on the palace of Versailles—
Trianon—Marli—St
Cloud—paintings at the house of the
Duke
d’Antin—the Thuilleries—the
Louvre—behaviour of
Mr
Law at Paris—Paris compared with London.
LET. LI. From Dover.—Ludicrous
distresses in the passage to
Dover—reflections
on travelling—brief comparison
between
England and the rest of the world in general.
LET. LII. Dover.—Reflections
on the fates of John Hughes and
Sarah
Drew—epitaph on them.
LET. LIII. —Character of Mrs D
—— and humorous representation
of
her intended marriage with a greasy curate—
anecdotes
of another couple—remarks on the abuse of
the
word nature; applied to the case of a husband
who
insisted
on his wife suckling her own child—
observations
on the forbidding countenance of a worthy
gentleman.