which, seeing that all creation is animated and upheld by ONE and the SAME
POWER, cannot but ardently hope that ALL may be equally benefited by a
reliance upon its goodness and bounty. From this eminence we have descended
somewhat into humbler walks. We have visited hospitals, strolled in
flower-gardens, and associated with publishers and collectors of
works--both of the dead and of the living. So now, fare you well. Commend
me to your family and to our common friends,--especially to the Gorburghers
should they perchance enquire after their wandering Vice President. Many
will be the days passed over, and many the leagues traversed, ere I meet
them again. Within twenty-four hours my back will be more decidedly turned
upon "dear old England"--for that country, in which her ancient kings once
held dominion, and where every square mile (I had almost said _acre_) is
equally interesting to the antiquary and the agriculturist. I salute you
wholly, and am yours ever.


[71] The reader may possibly not object to consult two or three pages of
the _Bibliographical Decameron_, beginning at page 137, vol. ii.
respecting a few of the early Rouen printers. The name of MAUFER,
however, appears in a fine large folio volume, entitled _Gaietanus
de Tienis Vincentini in Quatt. Aristot. Metheor. Libros_, of the
date of 1476--in the possession of Earl Spencer. See _Æd.
Althorp_. vol. ii. p. 134. From the colophon of which we can only
infer that Maufer was a _citizen of Rouen_. [According to M.
Licquet, the first book printed at Rouen--a book of the greatest
rarity--was entitled _Les Croniques de Normandie, par Guillaume Le
Talleur_, 1487, folio.]

[72] [Since the publication of the first edition of this Tour, I have had
_particular_ reason to become further acquainted with the