LETTER III.
To T. P. Esq.
MELLTERIE—CLAREN—SCHILLON—VEVAI—LAUSANNE.
Montalegre, near Coligni, Geneva,
July 12th.
It is nearly a fortnight since I have returned from Vevai. This journey has been on every account delightful, but most especially, because then I first knew the divine beauty of Rousseau’s imagination, as it exhibits itself in Julie. It is inconceivable what an enchantment the scene itself lends to those delineations, from which its own
