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CONT JULY 23 was going forward, & there we had a round or two of waltzing, a gallopade & a quadrille. It was 12 o’clock before we reached our dormitory. 7

MON. JULY 24. Our polite & attentive friend Mr St Amour left this morning, but the Baron breakfasted & dined with us. A Mr & Mrs Leyburn & Mrs Hare who accompanied us from England were also at our hotel & in our company during the greater part of the day. - Accompanied by our guide Louis & his little pug dog the smallest & funniest little cork tailed animal I ever saw, we lionised nearly the whole of the day, commencing with ascending the tower of the Hotel de Ville before breakfast & afterwards the churches, & academy of pictures. The carillons are in the tower & a tiresome noise do they make 8 times in every hour day & night. They call it an air that is played but the bass invariably sounds in the wrong place & thus destroys all harmony. The people of Bruges have certainly no excuse for want of punctuality. In the churches there is nothing remarkable but 2 rich tombs of Charles the Bold & his daughter. In the academy a picture of dead game is wonderfully done; - the wings of the bird project over the frame as if you could clasp them. Some pictures by Hans Hemling & John Van Eyck here are curious & beautiful, the oldest painters in water colors they are & in brilliancy of color & nicety of finish have never been surpassed. A stiffness of style accompanies it but this can well be excused. ?A ?[ ] [ ]

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