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as well as our accommodations and provisions; and the people civil. I think civility in inn-keepers essential to the health of travellers; for how much are one's nerves and spirits hurried, and one's blood heated, when, on arriving late perhaps at an inn in France, you are almost morally certain of receiving an insolent reply to any question, though the most reasonable, and necessary, that a traveller can ask?

I think the trout of this Lake inferior to the common English trout. The victuals here are dressed in the fashion of Geneva, or rather in the old English style, boiled and roasted, with puddings of various sorts, codling-pies, &c. The Genevans and Swiss boast a resemblance in their manner of living to the tables of England, but they are total strangers to the luxuries of our modern repasts. – As to what you have heard in regard to their eating cats, if there is any truth in that report, it is not at Geneva that animal is in vogue, but in the more remote and uncivilized parts of Switzerland.

Here I am interrupted by a great noise, proceeding from the jollity of some young men of Geneva, who, Divine service being over, are come to pass their Sunday's evening in various amusements in the garden of our inn. Some play at nine-pins, others at vingt et une; others eat and drink in the arbours, and chaunt the old French psalm-tunes to profane words, che sono un poco troppo allegro. – I imagined the Genevans had