"Vous venez d'entendre mon 'coup d'essai," continua Scipion, "et e ne IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, BRITISH AND FOREIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. INTRODUCTION. I HAD been making a little tour upon the Continent, and was returning home by way of French Flanders about the end of last Autumn. I arrived towards evening at Cassel; a town situated upon a lofty hill in that immense plain, which extends itself through the whole of the modern department of the North. I was very much relieved when I at last extricated myself from the vile, hearse-like diligence, which had conveyed me thither from Lille, and was not sorry to find that I had escaped without a dislocation of limb or joint. |