ARRIVAL A~ ORLEANS

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sie as lively as ever 1 saw any thing pillars coming furth and
standing out wt a great deal of prominency from that which
seimed to be the skie, that at least I judged it halfe a ell
farder out yet it was but'a mistake for its certainly knowen
that the broad is as smooth and æquall as can be. We also
went out wtout the yeard to the back of the wall, wheir by
the back and sydes of the broad we discerned it to be of such
thinnesse that it could not admit any utcomings, as these
pillars seimed to us.

In our coming home from Ruell we went in and saw
the king's brother the Duke of Orleances house, Sainct low:
it hath also a wery pretty yard, wheir we saw many water-
works also, and in the pond several swanes. We saw also
many orange trees, some of which had their ripe fruit, some
very green, some betwixt the according to the natur of
the orange tree. The house we fand wery rich many brave
portraicturs; our kings portraitur is their better done then
ever 1 saw it in my life. The partition that divides one roome
from another is of strange glasse that showes a man his body
in some of them 5 tymes, so that I saw in one of them 5 John
Lauders. AÍter this we came back to Paris, on the morrow
after, being the 6 of May according to the French account, the
~6 of April according to the Scots. I joined wt the messenger
for Orleans severall accompanieng me to my horse, their went
4 Englishes alongs also, one of which was the doctor whom
his cometicall face told to hav e the clap.

We came to Orleans May 7 at night. 1 straight directed
my course to Mr. Ogilvyes, which I did that I might get the
better accomodation knowing that the Doctor also intended
their. I delivered him the letter I brought him from F.
Kinloch, which was as followeth

Mr. John Ogilvy.

Paris, lltaJ 6, 1665.

SIR,-Thesse are to accompany the bearer heirof, Mr. John
Lauder, whose father is my wery much honored friend, his
mother my neir kinsw omen, and himselfe a very hopful youth
inclined to vertue every way. He intends to stay som tyme wt
you, theirfor 1 do earnestly recommend him to your best advice
and couusell in what may concerne his welfare to assist him