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PRISON LIFE.

sciences had taken refuge! I return to my dismal diary.

During a long time, books were my only occupation, as they gave me neither pen nor ink. I will try to recollect those which I read, during all my long captivity:—

Histoire Générale des Voyages 24 vols.
Condillac, I think 26
Œuvres de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 6
Œuvres de Charles Bonnet 10
Ferguson's History of Rome, in 4° 2
Hume's History of England 8
Pope's Works 8
Swift 8
Odyssée d’Homère l
Wealth of Nations, by Smith 5
Plutarch 15
Horace 2
Virgil 2
Ovid 3
Voyage de Coxe 4
Voyage auxiles Pelew, in-4° l
Voyage du Capitaine Bligh 1
Voyage du Capitaine Dixon 2
Romans de Voltaire 3
Other Novels, about 20