uiete. sua secaramque. a tergo pacem.
praestiterunt. et. quidem. cum. ad. census. novo. tum. opere. et. in.
adsueto. Galliis. ad. bellum. avocatus. esset. quod. opus. quam.
arduum. sit. nobis. nunc. cum. maxime. quamvis. nihil. ultra. quam.
ut. publice. notae. sint. facultates. nostrae. exquiratur. nimis.
magne. experimento. cognoscimus.

I WAS also shewed without the gate of St Justinus, some remains of a
Roman aqueduct; and behind the monastery of St Mary, there are the
ruins of the imperial palace, where the emperor Claudius was born,
and where Severus lived. The great cathedral of St John is a good
Gothic building, and its clock much admired by the Germans. In one
of the most conspicuous parts of the town, is the late king's statue
set up, trampling upon mankind. I cannot forbear saying one word
here, of the French statues (for I never intend to mention any more
of them) with their gilded full-bottomed wigs. If their king had
intended to express, in one image, _ignorance, ill taste_, and
_vanity_, his sculptors could have made no other figure, so proper
for that purpose, as this statue, which represents the odd mixture of
an old beau, who had a mind to be a hero, with a bushel of curled
hair on his head, and a gilt truncheon in his hand.--The French have
been so voluminous on the history of this town, I need say nothing of
it. The houses are tolerably well built, and the Belle Cour well
planted, from whence is seen the celebrated joining of the Soane and
Rhone.

_"Ubi Rhodanus ingens amne praerapido fluit
"Ararque dubitans quo suos fluctus agat."_

I have had time to see every thing with great leisure, having been
confined several days to this town by a swelling in my throat, the
remains of a fever, occasioned by a cold I got in the damps of the
Alps. The doctors here threaten me with all sorts of distempers, if
I dare to leave them; but I, that know the obstinacy of it, think it
just as possible to continue my way to Paris, with it, as to go about
the streets of Lyons; and am determined to pursue my journey
to-morrow, in spite of doctors, apothecaries, and sore throats.

WHEN you see Lady R----, tell her I have received her letter, and
will answer it from Paris, believing that the place that she would
most willingly hear of. I am, &c. &c:

LET. XLIX.

TO THE LADY R----.

_Paris, Oct_. 10. O. S. 1718.

I CANNOT give my dear Lady R---- a better proof