Property you have with you, or where you put it.

A Person who Travels for Improvement, will not waste his means in an ostentatious

Equipage, or encumber himself with any superfluous Luggage.

It would be a ridiculous vanity for a traveller to carry costly Rings, Watches, Snuff Boxes, &c.; they are direct invitations to Robbers, and irresistible enticements to Innkeepers to raise their charges.

The best way of avoiding Mistakes, and preventing Over-charges, is to pay the Bill of the Landlord every morning, or every third day at farthest, and take a Receipt for it. "Prompt Payment" produces At

tention and Respect.

Innkeepers are inquisitive,—it is always prudent to conceal from them what would give them an idea of the Traveller's importance.

"He is the discreetest Traveller who savoureth of least affectation or strangeness; and who maintaineth no Exotic modes at all after his return, either in his deportment or in his discourse, unless the subject require it, and the occasion and company aptly serve for it, then, an application of his Knowledge, may properly season his matter.”—Instructions for Travellers, London, 1642.

E

OF

TRAVELLING COMPANIONS,

AND

OF SERVANTS.

Be very cautious in choosing a Companion for your Travels. Some are Curious, desirous to see and examine every thing, and never scruple to expose themselves to a Shower of Rain, or to find their Dinner Cold at the Inn, if they can but make some new Discovery or important Observation. Others like to travel like Post Horses, and never mind Things worth Observation, provided they can find a good Bed and good Victuals : therefore, a prudent Person will previously

make himself thoroughly acquainted with the Humour of his intended Companions.

A Traveller exposes himself to many inconveniences if he cannot depend upon the fidelity and sobriety of his Servant, and his aversion to illicit and dangerous amusements,--his character cannot be too closely scrutinised before an agreement takes place.

A Servant selected to accompany a Gentleman on his Travels, should be conversant with the French language, write legibly, and be able to copy with correctness and celerity whatever is laid before him,--it will be extremely convenient that he can occasionally officiate as The Cook's," or

and Carriage-Keeper's Oracle."

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The Horse

"Excellent Servants, Swiss, Germans, or Italians, may always be procured by speaking to the keepers of respectable Hotels: there are many advantages in choosing a servant from his native place.”—Galignani's Traveller's Guide, 18mo. 1825, p. 1.

HINTS

FOR

PROMOTING THE PLEASURES, AND

PRESERVING THE HEALTH,

AND

A LIST OF REQUISITES FOR TRAVELLERS.

PERHAPS the following Catalogue comprises more machinery than any one Traveller may require, but it was composed to exhibit what articles were useful to various Artists, and to remind those about to Travel, of what they would most be in want of.

Imprimis,

"Beware of Dogs."

There have been many arguments pro, and con, the dreadful Disease their bite produces-