In frontier or garrison towns, where they have a right to examine your baggage, a twenty-four _sols_ piece, and assuring the officer that you are a gentleman, and not a merchant, will carry you through without delay.
Those who travel post should, before they set out, put up in parcels the money for the number of horses they use for one post, two posts, and a post _et demi_, adding to each parcel, that which is intended to be given to the driver, or drivers, who are intitled by the King's ordinance to five _sols_ a post; and if they behave ill, they should be given no more; when they are civil, ten or twelve _sols_ a post is sufficient. If these packets are not prepared, and properly marked, the traveller, especially if he is not well acquainted with the money, cannot count it out while the horses are changing, from the number of beggars which surround the carriage and who will take no denial.
People of rank and condition, either going to, or coming from the continent, by writing to PETER FECTOR, Esq; at _Dover_, will find him a man of property and character, on whom they may depend.
Valetudinarians, or men of a certain age, who travel into the southern parts of France, Spain, or Italy, should never omit to wear either a callico or fine flannel waistcoat under their shirts: strange as it may seem to say so, this precaution is more necessary in the south of France, than in England. In May last it was so hot at _Lyons_, on the side of the streets the sun shone on, and so cold on the shady side, that both were intolerable. The air is much more _vif_ and penetrating in hot climates, than in cold. A dead dog, thrown into the streets of Madrid at night, will not have a bit of flesh upon his bones after it has been exposed to that keen air twenty-four hours.
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L DOMIT. DOMITIANI EX TRIERARCHI CLASS. GERM. D PECCO****A VALENTINA M CO*****ENTISSIMA.
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Some of this looks wrong--e.g. the third line should probably begin P F, rather than PE--but it matches the text as printed.