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    gage , occupied so long a time , that we were compelled to remain where we were all night , and did not reach Bourdeaux till the next morning ; nor were our troubles even then at an end , for our luggage had to be again examined , and it was not till Thursday noon that we succeeded in rescuing it from the tenacious grasp of the Custom-house officers .

    Sunday 14 th . There are in Bourdeaux two Protestant churches , the duties of which are performed by three pastors , and one or two suffragans or assistants : I this day attended the service at the principal of these , that aux Chartrons . I was gratified to see so good a congregation , there being , I should imagine , four to five hundred persons present . The Liturgy , which was read , was that of the Genevan church , and the order of the service was the same , * except that there was singing five times ; nor was this in at all a better style than what I had been accustomed to hear in Switzerland . The preacher was a young man , not one of the regular pastors .

    15 th . Set out from Bourdeaux at eight o ' clock in the morning , in the steam-boat , for Blaye , and thence in the diligence for Saintes , where , from the badness of the roads and the wretchedness of the conveyance , I did not arrive till past ten at night , though the whole distance was only seventy miles . The country through which we passed was in general rich , but not particularly interesting . I did not augur very well of the education bestowed upon the children in this part of the world , from the regular chant of the 1

    little beggars on the road ; but I was glad to see " Ecole dEnseignment Mutuel" ( which is what we should denominate a Lancasterian School , ) written up in the village of Mirambeau . The next day I procured a horse and a boy to take me to Soujon , on my way to Royan . It was a fine bright October morning ; I had a clear blue sky above and a smiling country around me ; I was in the full possession of health and strength ; and I pressed forward on my way , over

    " The viue-covered hills and gay regions of France , " with ' a heart as light as if I had left all the cares and troubles of the world behind me . The country was , in many parts , beautiful ; yet did the eye look for something which it did not find—for the badness of the roads , the straggling nature of the coppices , the poorness of the hedges , where there were any , and the want of neatness about the farm-houses , proclaimed too loudly , that it was France , not England , through which I was travelling . At

    Soujon I dismissed the horse and boy , and procured a man to carry my luggage , and to conduct me to Royan , where I arrived at four o ' clock . This village is the Margate of Bourdeaux , by the inhabitants of which it is much resorted to in the summer time , especially since the establishment of a steam-boat , which plies regularly between the two places in the bathing season . It contains thirteen hundred inhabitants , of whom half are Protestants and half Catholics ; and a most liberal spirit prevails between the members of the two communions . 1 was here received with the welcome of a

    Christian and a brother , by my friend Monsieur Jay , ( the Protestant clergyman of * The most common order of the service in the French Protestant churches is the following : a chapter from the Old feud auother from the New Testament , singing , the Commandments , and the summary of the law from Mutt . xxii . 37—40 ; this first part of the service is conducted by the clerk or a young minister . The pastor then enters the pulpit and begins with giving out a psalm ; then the confession of sin , singing , extemporaneous prayer , the sermon , the general intercession , the Lord ' s Prayer , and the , Apostles' Creed ; singing , benedictiori .

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    Journal of a Tour in the South of France , *)

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/7/