young’s TRAVELS IN FRANCE.

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The 13th- The country to Chateaulin more mountainous; one-third wafle. Allthis region far inferior to Leon and Traguer : no exertions, nor any marks of intelli-gence, yet all near to the great navigation and market of Bred water, and the foilgood. Ouiinper, though a bilhopric, has nothing worth feeing but its promenades,

which are among the fineft in France.-25 miles.

The 14th. Leaving Quimper , there feein to be more cultivated features; but this

only for a moment ; waftes—walfes—waftes. — Reach Ouimperlay.-27 miles.

The 1 5th. The fame fombre country to l’Orient, but with a mixture of cultiva-tion and much wood. —I found l’Orient fo full of fools, gaping to fee a man of warlaunched, that I could get no bed for myfelf, nor liable for my horfe at the epei roy-’ ale. At the cheval blanc, a poor hole, I got my horfe crammed among twenty otherslike herrings in a barrel, but could have no bed. The Duke de Brifiac, with a fuiteof officers, had no better fuccefs. If the governor of Paris could not, without trouble,get a bed at l’Orient, no wonder Arthur Young found obftacles. I went diredfly todeliver my letters, found Monf. Befne, a merchant, at home ; he received me with afrank civility better than a million of compliments ; and the moment he underdood myfituation, offered me a bed in his houfe, which I accepted. The Tourville, of eighty-four guns, was to be launched at three o’clock, but put off till the next day, muchto the joy of the aubergiftes, &c. who were well pleafed to fee fuch afwarm of ftran-gers kept another day. I wifhed the Ihip in their throats, for I thought only of my poormare being fqueezed a night among the Bretagne garrans ; fixpence, however, to thegar9on, had effects marvelloully to her eafe. The town is modern, and regularly built,the Ifreets diverge in rays from the gate, and are croffed by others at right angles,broad, handfomely built, and well paved; with many houfes that make a good figure.But what makes l’Orient more known, is, being the appropriated port for the com-merce of India , containing all the (hipping and magazines of the company. The lat-ter are truly great, and fpeak the royal munificence from which they arofe. They areof feveral ftories, and all vaulted in ffone, in a fplendid ffile, and of vafl extent. Butthey want, at lead at prel'ent, like fo many other magnificent eflablilhments in France ,the vigour and vivacity of an adtive commerce. The bulinefs tranfadting here feemstrifling. Three eighty-four gun fhips, the Tourville, 1’Eole, and Jean Bart, with athirty-two gun frigate, are upon the flocks. They affured me, that the Tourville hasbeen only nine months building : the feene is alive, and fifteen large men of war beinglaid up here in ordinary, with fome lndiatnen and a few traders, render the port apleafing fpedlacle. There is a beautiful round tower, a hundred feet high, of whitedone, with a railed gallery at top ; the proportions light and agreeable ; it is for look-ing out and making fignals. My hofpitable merchant I find a plain unaffcdled charac-ter, with feme whimfical originalities, that make him more interefling ; he has anagreeable daughter, who entertains me with finging to her harp. The next morningthe Tourville quitted her flocks, to the mufic of the regiments, and the fliouts of thou-fands colledted to fee it. Leave 1 Orient. Arrive at Hennebon.-7I miles.

The 17th. To Auray, the eighteen poorefl miles I have yet'feen in Bretagne .Good houfes of {tone and flate, without glafs. Auray has a little port, and fomefloops, which always give an air of life to a town. To Vannes , the country varied,but landes the more permanent feature. Vannes is not an inconfiderable town, but itsgreatefl beauty is its port and promenade.

The 18th. To Mufiliac. Belleifle with the fmaller ones, d’Herdic and d’Honat, arein fight. Mufiliac, if it can boafl of nothing elfe, may at lead vaunt its cheapncfs.

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