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For eight days they encountered many perilous incidents and underwent incredible fatigue, riding throughout the same horses, never stopping more than two hours to eat or sleep, avoiding towns and crossing rivers as they best could; threading at first the gorges of the Auvergne mountains, then descending by the Bec d'Allier, and making their way to the Loire.

In this passage Casanova says, for instance: 'Elle venoit presque tous les jours lui faire une belle visite. This is altered into: 'Cependant chaque jour Therese venait lui faire une visite. Casanova says that some one 'avoit, comme de raison, forme le projet d'allier Dieu avec le diable. This is made to read: 'Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d'allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde. Casanova tells us that Therese would not commit a mortal sin 'pour devenir reine du monde; pour une couronne, corrects the indefatigable Laforgue.

It devotes forty pages to the voyage, but absolutely suppresses all reference to the Encounter Bay incident, the imprisonment of Flinders, and other questions concerning him. Yet Girard's book was "couronne par la Societe d'emulation de d'Allier." Further consideration of Napoleon's purposes. What Australia owes to British sea power. Influence of the Napoleonic wars.

In this passage Casanova says, for instance: 'Elle venoit presque tous les jours lui faire une belle visite. This is altered into: 'Cependant chaque jour Therese venait lui faire une visite. Casanova says that some one 'avoit, comme de raison, forme le projet d'allier Dieu avec le diable. This is made to read: 'Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d'allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde. Casanova tells us that Therese would not commit a mortal sin 'pour devenir reine du monde; pour une couronne, corrects the indefatigable Laforgue.