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"The Voyage Descriptif et Philosophique de Paris, par L P ," contains the following remarks, the truth of which renders them interesting, and I shall therefore translate them, for the information of those who may chance to peruse these pages. The author observes, "An air of inquietude has succeeded that openness and sociability, which so much distinguished the French.
There is also a particular description of the quicksilver mine at Almaden, in La Mancha. Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne. Par La Borde. Paris, 4 vols. fol. Itinéraire Descriptif de l'Espagne. Par La Borde. Paris, 1809. 5 vols. 8vo. Lettres sur l'Espagne, ou Essais sur les Moeurs, les Usages, et la Litérature de ce Royaume. Par Beauharnois. Paris, 1810. 2 vols. 8vo.
But a French traveller before alluded to himself without doubt stimulated by the example of our countryman M. Vaysse de Villiers, author of the 'Itineraire Descriptif de la France, did in 1816, or thereabouts, accomplish the journey from Mende to Florac by way of Sauveterre.
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