Journal of a tour made in the years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accommpanying the late Sir Humphry Davy / By J.J. Tobin.

  • Tobin, J. J.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Journal of a tour made in the years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accommpanying the late Sir Humphry Davy / By J.J. Tobin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Humphry’s side, his servant George being on the dicky with his master’s favourite pointers, we drove from Park Street on the morning of the 29th of March. We slept that night at Dover, which we left the next morning at half- past nine o’clock, and arrived at Calais about twelve, after a beautiful and calm passage. Sir Humphry wishing to be left to repose quietly on his bed in the cabin, I took my favourite seat on the prow, and sat musing on times past and to come, looking upon the curling waves which were glittering with a thousand golden colours in the bright beams of the morning sun. The weather formed a strong contrast with that of the day before, when the only change had been from sleet and snow to hail and rain. ‘The dif- ference between the English and French coasts is very striking; and the contrast between the lofty white chalk cliffs of the one, and the gay and verdant hills of the opposite shore, seems almost emblematical of the national peculiarities of the two countries. Sir Humphry was provided with a letter from Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador at London, to the Director of the Douane,