We Had Bad Horses, And Bad Chaises; Set Out From
Every Stage With The Curses Of The People; And At This Expence I
Saved About Ten Shillings In The Whole Journey.
For such a paltry
consideration, he was contented to be miserable himself, and to
make every other person unhappy with whom he had any concern.
When I came last from Bath it rained so hard, that the postilion
who drove the chaise was wet to the skin before we had gone a
couple of miles. When we arrived at the Devises, I gave him two
shillings instead of one, out of pure compassion. The consequence
of this liberality was, that in the next stage we seemed rather
to fly than to travel upon solid ground. I continued my bounty to
the second driver, and indeed through the whole journey, and
found myself accommodated in a very different manner from what I
had experienced before. I had elegant chaises, with excellent
horses; and the postilions of their own accord used such
diligence, that although the roads were broken by the rain, I
travelled at the rate of twelve miles an hour; and my
extraordinary expence from Bath to London, amounted precisely to
six shillings.
The river Var falls into the Mediterranean a little below St.
Laurent, about four miles to the westward of Nice. Within the
memory of persons now living, there have been three wooden
bridges thrown over it, and as often destroyed in consequence of
the jealousy subsisting between the kings of France and Sardinia;
this river being the boundary of their dominions on the side of
Provence.
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