And I Dare Say My Appearance Seemed As Uncouth To Him, As His
Travelling Dress Appeared To Me.
I had a grey mourning frock
under a wide great coat, a bob wig without powder, a very large
laced hat, and a meagre, wrinkled, discontented countenance.
The fourth night of our journey we lay at Macon, and the next day
passed through the Lyonnois, which is a fine country, full of
towns, villages, and gentlemen's houses. In passing through the
Maconnois, we saw a great many fields of Indian corn, which grows
to the height of six or seven feet: it is made into flour for the
use of the common people, and goes by the name of Turkey wheat.
Here likewise, as well as in Dauphine, they raise a vast quantity
of very large pompions, with the contents of which they thicken
their soup and ragouts.
As we travelled only while the sun was up, on account of my ill
health, and the post horses in France are in bad order, we seldom
exceeded twenty leagues a day.
I was directed to a lodging-house at Lyons, which being full they
shewed us to a tavern, where I was led up three pair of stairs,
to an apartment consisting of three paltry chambers, for which
the people demanded twelve livres a day: for dinner and supper
they asked thirty-two, besides three livres for my servant; so
that my daily expence would have amounted to about forty-seven
livres, exclusive of breakfast and coffee in the afternoon.
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