Excerpt from Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 of 15 I arrived here at five o'clock in the morning, last Sunday; had a fine passage of less than three hours; and travelled with the Prince de Nassau from Calais, without stopping till we got here, in the most abominable weather I ever saw. It scarce ever ceased raining during the two nights and one day we were on the road, and the servants were half dead with the soaking and fatigue they underwent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.