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der circumftances at which the feelings of other men would revolt; for the tranfaCtions of that period in the territoryof the prince palatine, are perfectly adapted to imprefs terror as well as abhorrence, even on thofe who are no other-wife interefted in them, than as the friends of humanity.

Having fpent as much time at Baccharah as the plan of our tour would admit, we took leave of our hoft at theStar; and I owe him the juftice of bearing teftimony to the civility of his treatment, the moderation of his charge,and the excellence of his accommodations: though I had informed him the day after our arrival, that we wereEngliflimen, a circumftance which I had not confided to any inn-keeper from Strafburgh to this place; for I wasthere affured, that we fhould fuffer great inconvenience from the prejudices of the Palatines, if we were known to beEnglifh. I related this to my hoft, who was very intelligent, and fpoke French extremely well, that he might befenfible of the compliment I paid him. He heard me with great indignation, and affured me the account I hadreceived of the difpofition of the Palatines towards the Englifh was falfe and illiberal, and defired I would not formmy opinion from information, but experience; I followed his advice, and inuft confefs 1 had no reafon to repent it.

We engaged a boat to convey us to Oberwefel, a fmall town in the Electorate of Treves, about fix miles belowBaccharah. The office of waterman in this little voyage, which we made at the expence only of ten-pence, wasperformed by a young girl. A confideration for the age and fex of our conduCtrefs, and fome little concern for-ourfelves, prevented our being perfectly at eafe when we firft embarked; but we were foon convinced that fhe under-(tood her bufinefs too well, and performed it with too much eafe to herfelf, to leave us any caufe of diftrefs, eitheron her account or our own.

Not having the good fortune at our firft arrival to meet any perfon at Oberwefel who could fpeak French, or towhom we could make ourfelves intelligible concerning the article of eating, we found our entertainment, though wellintended, very little to our fatisfaCtion; but the opportunity of gratifying my tafte in a drawing of the caflle ofTefield, which {lands on an eminence that commands the town, and is the fubjeCt of the fixth plate, fufficiently com-penfated for the difappointment of my appetite. The cafe was otherwife with my companion, who being keener fet,and having perhaps lefs enthufiafm, would have preferred an Englifh buttock of beef to Tefield caftle; or, I believe, toany caftle in the univerfe.

I WAS interrupted in my firft attempt to make a drawing of this caftle, by the eager curiofity of the inhabitants ofOberwefel, who collected about me in fuch crouds, that they intercepted my view of the objeCt, and almoft diftraCtedjme with their noife; I therefore defifted for the prefent, and on the next day procured a boat, in which I feated

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