Let The Way-Worn Traveller Vent His Complaints Upon The Sudden Turns And Dangers Of Your Roads, - Your Rocks, - Your Precipices; - The Difficulties Of Getting Up, - The Horrors Of Getting Down, - Mountains Impracticable, - And Cataracts, Which Roll Down Great Stones From Their Summits, And Block His Road Up.

- The peasants had been all day at work in removing a fragment of this kind between St. Michael and Madane; and, by the time my voiturin got to the place, it wanted full two hours of completing before a passage could any how be gain'd:

There was nothing but to wait with patience; - 'twas a wet and tempestuous night; so that by the delay, and that together, the voiturin found himself obliged to put up five miles short of his stage at a little decent kind of an inn by the roadside.

I forthwith took possession of my bedchamber - got a good fire - order'd supper; and was thanking heaven it was no worse, when a voiture arrived with a lady in it and her servant maid.

As there was no other bed-chamber in the house, the hostess, - without much nicety, led them into mine, telling them, as she usher'd them in, that there was nobody in it but an English gentleman; - that there were two good beds in it, and a closet within the room which held another. The accent in which she spoke of this third bed, did not say much for it; - however, she said there were three beds and but three people, and she durst say, the gentleman would do anything to accommodate matters.

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