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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
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to Aix-les-Bains, but could hear of no ship sailing, within any reasonable tiuio, to Marseilles or any other neighbouring port. Accordingly, he took passage for himself and his wife and daughter in a merchant vessel, with excellent accommodation for passengers, including separate state-rooms. Asthere were no landing-stages anywhere, Fielding, who had lostthe use of his limbs through the progress of his disease, suffered terribly in getting aboard. There was a long delay in the Thames, due partly to the numerous holidays of the custom-house officers, which made it impossible to clear the ship, andto many other causes. Meanwhile Fielding was tapped for the dropsy, in order to show the man who was to act as • steward,cook, butler, sailor, and suro-eon how to do it if occasion arose on the vo3^age. Befoire the final depai-ture from England a month elapsed, spent in waiting for winds in the Channel. The vesselwas in collision on two successive days.228 MARYBATESON.Social Life. Traveltoy Sea,
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Members of the DILETTANTI SOCIETY, BY Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. (By permission of the Dilettanti Society.) Travel by Land. SOCIAL LIFE. 467 1742-1784) Smollett liad painful experiences, in 1763, when he crossed the Channel to go to Xic# for the winter. At Dover he arranged with the master of a packet-boat to go to Boulogne for five guineas. The cabin was so small, the beds so dirty and in-accessible, that the family decided to sit up all night. Nextday the master played them the usual trick when he refused toland them, and made them get into an open boat a league offshore. As the Boulogne watermen claimed the right to carryall passengers on shore, the Smolletts had to get into anotherboat in a very rough sea, and to gratify all three crews.Again, coming from Flushing to Dover, Smollett paid his passage of one guinea on the understanding that he should havea bed. But there were only eight beds for sixteen passengers.At all ports, too, it was a hard matter to land or to embark tillthe begin

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