[17] [Mons. Licquet, my translator, thinks, that in using the word
    “Antiquaire”—­as appears in the previous edition of this work,
    incorporated in the gallicised sentence of “Voyage Bibliographique
    Antiquaire, &c.”—­I have committed an error; as the word
    “Archeologique” ought, in his opinion, to have been adopted—­and he
    supposes that he best expresses my meaning by its adoption.  Such a
    correction may be better French; but “Archaeological” is not exactly
    what is usually meant—­in our language—­by “Antiquarian.”]

[18] This smart little vessel, of about 70 tons burden, considered to be
    the fastest sailing packet from Dieppe, survived our voyage only about
    eighteen months.  Her end had nearly proved fatal to every soul on
    board of her.  In a dark night, in the month of September, when bound
    for Dieppe, she was struck by a heavy London brig.  The crew was with
    difficulty saved—­and the vessel went down within about twenty-five
    minutes after the shock.

[19] The English are not permitted to bring their own vessels into
    harbour—­for obvious reasons.

[20] [This “scene” has been, in fact, subsequently depicted by. the
    masterly pencil of J.M.W.TURNER, Esq.  R. A:  and the picture, in which
    almost all the powers of that surprising Artist are concentrated, was
    lately offered for sale by public auction.  How it was suffered to be
    bought in for three hundred and eighty guineas, is at once a riddle
    and a reproach to public taste.]

[21] [I learn that he is since DECEASED. Thus the very first chapter of
    this second edition has to record an instance of the casualties and
    mutabilities which the short space of ten years has effected.  Mons. De
    la Rue was a man of worth and of virtue.]

LETTER II.

DIEPPE.  FISHERIES.  STREETS.  CHURCHES OF ST. JAQUES AND ST. REMY.  DIVINE
WORSHIP.  MILITARY MASS.

The town of Dieppe contains a population of about twenty-thousand souls.[22] Of these, by much the greater stationary part are females; arising from one third at least of the males being constantly engaged in the FISHERIES.  As these fisheries are the main support of the inhabitants, it is right that you should know something about them.  The herring fishery takes place twice a year:  in August and October.  The August fishery is carried on along the shores of England and the North.  From sixty to eighty vessels, of from twenty-five to thirty tons burthen each, with about fifteen men in each vessel, are usually employed.  They are freighted with salt and empty barrels, for seasoning and stowing the fish, and they return about the end of October.  The herrings caught in August are considerably preferable to those caught in October.  The October fishery is carried on with smaller vessels, along the coast of France from Boulogne to Havre.  From one hundred and twenty, to one hundred and thirty vessels, are engaged in this latter navigation; and the fish, which is smaller, and of inferior flavour to that caught upon the English coasts, is sent almost entirely to the provinces and to Paris, where it is eaten fresh.  So much for the herring.[23]