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Au devant de Sainte Sophie est une belle et immense place, entourée de murs comme un palais, et jadis on faisoit des jeux. [Footnote: L'hippodrome Grec, aujourd'hui l'atméïdan des Turcs.] J'y vis le frère de l'empereur, despote de Morée, s'exercer avec une vingtaine d'autres cavaliers. Chacun d'eux avoit un arc: ils couroient

Paid to Gentlemen of Vingtaine, who carried him to his grave.................. 4 4 0 Ditto to me, Etienne Mahye, for proper gloves of silk and cotton................. 1 0 0 Ditto to me, E. M., for laying of him out and all that appertains............... 0 7 0 Ditto to me, E. M., for coffin............ 4 0 0 Ditto to me, E. M., for divers............ 0 4 0 The Master of Burials interrupted.

Paid to Gentlemen of Vingtaine, who carried him to his grave .................. 4 4 0 Ditto to me, Etienne Mahye, for proper gloves of silk and cotton ................. 1 0 0 Ditto to me, E. M., for laying of him out and all that appertains ............... 0 7 0 Ditto to me, E. M., for coffin ............ 4 0 0 Ditto to me, E. M., for divers ............ 0 4 0 The Master of Burials interrupted.

It was in his "Essays on Unsettled Questions in Political Economy" that his views upon this subject were first given to the world, a work of which M. Cherbuliez of Geneva speaks as "un travail le plus important et le plus original dont la science economique se soit enrichie depuis une vingtaine d'années."

Je crois que mes notes sur les aquafortistes iront plus vite que je ne l'avais espere. J'ai deja termine Claude, Salvator, Wilkie, Geddes, Ruysdael, Paul Potter. J'arriverai a ma vingtaine si ma sante se maintient pendant tout mon sejour. Je reserve le samedi et le dimanche a Kew pour ecrire ou dessiner. "Je m'etonne du mauvais de certains aqua-fortistes celebres.