Travels Through France and Italy (Marlboro Travel)
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The burghers here, as in other places, consist of merchants, shop-keepers, and artisans. Some of the merchants have got fortunes, by fitting out privateers during the war. A great many single ships were taken from the English, notwithstanding the good look-out of our cruisers, who were so alert, that the privateers from this coast were often taken in four hours after they sailed from the French harbour; and there is hardly a captain of an armateur in Boulogne, who has not been prisoner in England five or six times in the course of the war. They were fitted out at a very small expence, and used to run over in the night to the coast of England, where they hovered as English fishing smacks, until they kidnapped some coaster, with which they made the best of their way across the Channel.
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After the death of his daughter, Smollet set off on a two-year tour of the Continent. This is the alternately crotchety and appreciative record of his adventures.
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Travels Through France and Italy (Marlboro Travel)
Travels Through France and Italy (Marlboro Travel),Tobias Smollett,Osbert Sitwell,Marlboro Press,0810160536,1721-1771,Description and travel,Early works to 1800,Essays,Essays & Travelogues,France,Italy,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Smollett, Tobias George,,Smollett, Tobias, 1721-1771,Travel,Classic travel writing,English,Journeys,Smollett, Tobias George,Travel & holiday guides,Travel / Essays & Travelogues
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