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These passages in Greek or Latin authors I perused in the text of Cluverius, in two folio volumes: but I separately read the descriptions of Italy by Strabo, Pliny, and Pomponius Mela, the Catalogues of the Epic poets, the Itineraries of Wesseling's Antoninus, and the coasting Voyage of Rutilius Numatianus; and I studied two kindred subjects in the Measures Itineraires of d'Anville, and the copious work of Bergier, Histoire des grands Chemins de I'Empire Romain.
There was a short pause. "I think," said Madame D'Anville, "that it is in those pensees which you admire so much in Rousseau, that our authors in general excel." "You are right," said Vincent, "and for this reason with you les gens de letters are always les gens du monde. Hence their quick perceptions are devoted to men as well as to books.
"Pooh!" said Lady , taking Lord Vincent's arm, "your jealousy does indeed rest upon 'a trifle light as air." "Do you forgive me?" whispered I to Madame D'Anville, as I handed her to the salle a manger. "Does not love forgive every thing?" was her answer. "At least," thought I, "it never talks in those pretty phrases." The conversation soon turned upon books.
Hardly had I closed the door, and put the key in my pocket, before Madame D'Anville entered. "Do you generally order your servants to keep me waiting in your anti- room?" said she haughtily. "Not generally," I replied, endeavouring to make my peace; but all my complaisance was in vain she was jealous of my intimacy with the Duchesse de Perpignan, and glad of any excuse to vent her pique.
Hardly had I closed the door, and put the key in my pocket, before Madame D'Anville entered. "Do you generally order your servants to keep me waiting in your anti-room?" said she haughtily. "Not generally," I replied, endeavouring to make my peace; but all my complaisance was in vain she was jealous of my intimacy with the Duchesse de Perpignan, and glad of any excuse to vent her pique.
The husband went for it I remained with the lady. "Mr. Pelham," she said, "I have heard much of you from my friend Madame D'Anville, and have long been anxious for your acquaintance. I did not think I should commence it with so great an obligation."
"One fact," says D'Anville, "which cannot be considered as equivocal, after the proofs with which we have been recently furnished, is the communication of the Rio Negro with the Orinoco; but we must not hesitate to admit, that we are not yet sufficiently informed of the manner in which this communication takes place."
From Brest D'Anville sailed for some reason to Rochelle, and here the ships were kept so long by head-winds that it was the 20th of June before they could put to sea. From the first the omens were sinister. The Admiral was beset with questions as to the destination of the fleet, which was known to him alone; and when, for the sake of peace, he told it to his officers, their discontent redoubled.
Hence it follows that the Alpine lake of Hortsmann, which has escaped the attention of D'Anville, and which is perhaps situate amid a group of mountains, lies north-east of the portage from the Idapa to the Mavaca, and south-east of the Orinoco, where it goes up above Esmeralda.
The hope of settling once for all the secular disputes which have divided so many keen minds; d'Anville, Heeren, Berlioux, Quatremere on the one hand, on the other Gosselin, Walckenaer, Tissit, Vivien, de saint-Martin; you think that that is devoid of interest? A plague upon you for being hard to please." "I spoke of practical value," I said.
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