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    beautifully fine , and I made tip for lost time . This is one of the finest towns in France ; the modern part is well-built and handsome , the streets wide , and the houses all of white stone . In the bridge I was somewhat disappointed , as we generally are in objects of which we have heard much . The Place de Louis XVI . will be magnificent when it is completed ; the

    new hospital , which is now building , surpasses every thing of the kind that I ever saw , excepting that of Greenwich ; and the cemetery , though not so extensive as that of Pere La Chaise at Paris , is far more peaceful and retired , and contains several monuments in exquisite taste . The expense of living is high at Bourdeaux , and the climate is moist , for much rain falls here , and the situation is low and surrounded by water .

    23 rd , came by the steam-boat to Marmande , on the Garonne , a distance probably of sixty miles , in fourteen hours—the day wet , and the country uninteresting . 24 th , came in a voiture to Agen , the country during the latter part of the ride the most beautiful that I had seen in France , fertile and well cultivated , and with the vines trained upon the trees , or festooned as they are in Italy .

    25 th , arrived at Montauban to breakfast , having obtained a place in the malle-poste , a large cabriolet , drawn by three horses , which carries the courier and one passenger . This climate is sensibly warmer than any which I have yet found in the course of my journey , so that it is pleasant to escape from the heat of the sun into the shade . Montauban is , to my eye , by far the pleasantest town in France , being beautifully situated on a rising ground , which ascends from the north bank of the Garonne , and in the midst of a well-cultivated country . The streets indeed are narrow , but they contain many good houses , and there are delightful public walks overlooking the

    In the forenoon I went to the Protestant College , or , as it is here called , La Faculty to deliver a letter of introduction , with which I was furnished , to one of the professors . The College is an old nunnery , and I was amuse'd to see the jealous peep-hole which still remains in the principal gate . I

    was delighted with the appearance of its inner court , with shady bigonnia catalpas planted in the middle , with graceful vines trained upon its walls , and surrounded by cloisters , which afford a cool promenade to the professors and students . In spite of the tenth commandment , I envied the building for our College at York . But then , who could study in such a climate as this ? The walls of the cloisters are covered with wise maxims , to excite the

    students to diligence and good conduct . Among these there was one which I was particularly glad to see ; " Maxima hmresis est vita improba . " Calvinism , I thought , could not be the order of the day , where such a dogma as this occupies so conspicuous a place ; nor was my surmise far from the truth , for the majority of the professors , whatever may be the precise shade of their orthodoxy or their heterodoxy , are certainly not Calvinists . The old Protestant College of Montauban was suppressed at the Revocation of

    the Edict of Nantes , in the year 1685 . Napoleon revived it in 1808 , and bestowed upon it an old nunnery as its local . It has six Professors , who give lectures on the following subjects : Gospel Morality and Pulpit Eloquence ; Dogmatical Theology ; Ecclesiastical History , and Sacred Criticism ; Hebrew ; the higher parts of Latin ( haute Latinite ) and Greek Literature ; Natural Philosophy , Metaphysics and Ethics . Besides these there are five Tutors , ( Repetiteurs , ) who teach Latin and Greek ; Mathematics ; Rhetoric and French Literature ; Geography and History . Twelve or fifteen

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    Joumut of a Tour in the South of France . 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/9/