Note 14 — PORTUGAL.
Reading edition
Writers of travels are sadly given to exaggeration. The author of the Tableau du Lisbonne writes, “Il est dix heures, une foule de P. de Ch. s’avance,” &c. From such an account one would suppose the whole line of houses in motion. No such thing. At intervals, to be sure, some accidents of this sort, more or less, slily occur; but by no means in so general and evident a manner.