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CHAP. XXVI.
What a tract of country have I run!—how many degrees nearer to the warm sun am I advanced, and how many fair and goodly cities have I seen, during the time you have been reading, and reflecting, Madam, upon this story! There's Fontainbleau, and Sens, and Joigny, and Auxerre, and Dijon the capital of Burgundy, and Challon, and Mâcon the capital of the Mâconese, and a score more upon the road to Lyons———and now I have run them over———I might as well talk to you of so many market-towns in the moon, as tell you one word about them: it will be this chapter at the least, if not both thisand
