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Thursday 25 October 1838

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A-  says she thinks it rained at 5am fine at 7 F61° at 8 am and a little sun, but highish wind – wrote out accounts of yesterday and Tuesday – now at 9 am have just ordered a carriage for Vaucluse at 9 ½ or 9 ¾ - breakfast now at 9 am – off at 10 20 to Vaucluse (in little calêche – took George) – at 10 ½ turn right into by-road i.e. leave the route royale and turn into route Départementale – la garance at intervals all along – largeish village of Monières [Morières] at 11 10 – alight at 11 ¼ (going up hill) to walk A- for ¼ hour I for ½ hour – she very poorly today – Chateauneuf [Châteauneuf-du-Pape]at the top of the hill at 11 50 – striking – telegraph surmounted the clocher seen at a great distance from all sides – remains of old walls all round the little town, houses built on and against them – bad road – glad to be in a hired carriage – high wind – the terrible bise – fine bassin plain of on the other side of Avignon, and on this fine bassin plain side (on descending from Chateauneuf [Châteauneuf-du-Pape] – vine, olive and mulberry and garrance [garance] all along, today – garrance [garance] in ridges 2 or 3 ft. broad with 12 to 18in. wide furrows between – in one place, saw water in these furrows as if the garrance [garance] required much watering – alight at 12 ¼ at la Thor to see the church – little old – walled (river) Sorgue [Sorgues]-girt town – the church de temps de Charlemagne worth seeing (architecture Roman Byzantine or as we call it Saxon) – les arches en plain cintre – very handsome portail (porch) south and handsome one west under the gallery or ‘tribune’ over the west entrance end of nave – handsome neatly kept much gilt interior – Dome rising from 4 arches getting up by 3 steps and the corners en conque to get the octagon coupole immediately above – In spite of the high wind, go to the top to the iron-balustraded gallery round the new round Corinthian pilastered clocher began 2 years ago finished 2 months ago  a sort of imitation I suppose of the old clocher, tho’ the concierge said no! much better the old one comme rien – they were obliged to do something – the ground not good, or the tower by its own weight kept sinking, but what they have built upon they think is secure – very fine view from the top – Mt. Ventoux (no snow – wonderful that snow has not already fallen on it) mountains of Vaucluse and then valley and then the Luberon mountains – Carpentras (under Mont Ventoux) and Cavaillon under the Luberon, and (on the other side more towards Avignon) the spire of Caumont where the garance 1st grown by the Persian Jean Althen from 1762 to 1774 on the estate of the marquis de Seytres-Caumont   vide near the end of Alphone Rastouls’ Tableau d’Avignon published at A- 1835) A- very poorly – at 1 18 along an avenue of large elms l’isle surrounded by the Sorgue  [Sorgues]- did not enter the town but drive ½ round it outside its encircling river that turns a host of mill-wheels – see a large square brick paved floor close down to the river (10 to 15 yards square with a 3 shades at the end opposite the river) apparently a thrashing floor for corn-trod out by houses? and saw in another place garance roots spread out on the ground today – wind round the town, and turn left and cross the river at 1 20 along straight avenue of young platanus terminated by obelisk –

we might have driven I should suppose straight thro’ L’isle to the gate nearly opposite this turn instead of rounding the town as we have done; but probably the streets are narrow and ill paved now at 1 25 a man mowing shortish grass left close to the road – cypress hedges all today as before ever since Arles - at, behind, the obelisk at 1 28 and cross the river over stone bridge having wound as it were to the left round the obelisk, and here the road to Carpentras rather to the left (1 ½ to 2 hours from here to Carpentras) and our road to Vaucluse to the right from this obelisk-bridge at 1 28 – at 1 53 enter the little pretty valley of V- at 2 3/60 a light there at the ‘Hotel de Petrarque and Laure’ A- had motion A- had a little of our wine and biscuit – I grapes and out with an old man Cicerone and George at 2 40 – stopt to see the view in [?] ½ done of the old chateau picturesque pointly yellow white ‘morte-feuille’coloured and rocks just above the little town (of Vaucluse) – to be at the next Paris exposition – and to be engraved – civil artist – would prefer an English engraver if not too dear – many views of Vaucluse, but all to dress too much made up with pretty trees bushes etc. that are not in the original – at the fountain at 3 10 – 5 minutes there – throwing stone into the deep (black over the deep fathomless hole) water – in August one can walk round all of which one see the bottom at present – the cavern to the left extends a considerable way – the old man called our attention to the little fig tree growing over the entrance and said to be the one Petrarch speaks of in his works – the duchesse d’Angoulême at V- in 1823 – said the column now almost opposite the Inn and well placed there in 1827, should be taken from opposite the fountain where it was shamed by the natural column at a little distance right (as one looks towards the fountain) – the yellow morte-feuille coloured broken rocks ruin-like very picturesque – à pie and 700ft. high just above the fountain – looks in the distance all the way from L’isle like a great Hipperholme-lane-ends stone quarry but circular – an oule – the whole opening looks like a Pyrenees oule or cirque – and Mt. Ventoux itself -  (clear in the red line of low horizon as we returned) the top white calcareous stone very difficult to distinguish from the nuages in which it is  often envelopment  

A.      Fountain of Vaucluse

                        sketched this morning from memory Friday 26 October stood up looking over the top of our calêche almost all the way from V- to L’isle as we returned –

Mt. Ventoux itself seeming an even crest (crête uni) sweeping in a large (circular range segment of a great circle) from above Carpentras to join? the mountains of V-

from the fountain at Petrarchs’ close upon the river at 3 55 – Petrarchs’ laurel a young healthy looking sweet bay full of clusters of fruit black and like little sloes without their bloom – declined taking a branch – the old woman declared it was from the old Petrarchan souche – re-passed from the garden the old (cut thro’ the rock said to have been cut by the Romans and to have formed part of their aqueduct that carried the waters of the Sorgue [Sorgues] to Cavaillon (2 petites lieues from Vaucluse) St. Remy, St. Chamas (Sham-mah) Martègues [Martigues], to Arles – garance-root lying out today – sells (the dried root9 at 30fr. le quintel of 100lbs. – paper mill in the village – silk milks at a distance – did we not pass them in coming? adossès against the rock back at the Inn at and in 2 or 3 minutes after 4 20 – out of the valley in 7 or 8 minutes – back at the obelisk near L’isle at 4 55 – at le thor at 5 25 – at Chateauneuf [Châteauneuf-du-Pape]  at 5 ¾, and up the hill at 55 – home at 7 ¼ - dinner at 7 40 to 10 – the pelerine air pillow, given to A- by Mrs. Lawton, lost – had up the master of the hotel he gives little hope of finding it – sat up reading till 10 ¾ - no! till 11 ½ - Rastouls’ tableau d’Avignon – printed by or for him at A- in 1835. – he is editor of a journal published here, and seems to have had so many irons in the fire that he is not doing well – a fait des mauvaises affaires people suppose – vide the commencement of the work –speaks in [raptusness] of the country hereabouts – the surpassing beauty of the view from the Rocher des Doms, (our point de vue of Wednesday) the isle de la Barthelasse which divided the pont de St. Benézet (destroyed – washed away by the flood of the Rhone in the 17th century to 4 I think arches left – the chapel of the Saint on the 2nd – on the pier) the ormeaux du cours elms of the cours by which we entered porte de l’[oulle] by which one ought to enter as we did – canals alimentés par la fontaine de Vaucluse font mouvoir les Guindres, les tavelles de prosaïques moulins à soie. vide p. 5 and p. 4 speaks of the view of Avignon taken by Joseph Vernet

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view of Avignon taken by Joseph Vernet (native of Avignon) after his return from Rome in 1757, taken from near Villeneuve (des Avignon) this picture now in England – and view of Avignon taken for the French government in 1832 and 1833 by Mr. Isidore Dagnan, qui a pris son point de vue d’l’ile de la Barthelasse – fine day but high wind-forte bise toute la journée – F62° at 10 ¾ pm

Rastoul speaks of Mt. Ventoux (commencement of the back) as ‘au pic couronné des ruiges éternelles’ – this is quite a figure of speech – snow ¾ of the year the man said at the church top at le Thor – but no snow on the top now, which he said was extraordinary – fresh snow generally falls on it by or before this time –

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29m Lexembr

a fin /a fɪn/ [ɐˈfɪn] so that, in order to, with the intent or purpose of (something specified)

fin a /fɪn a/ [fɪˈna] until, up to, ending at the time or place of (something specified)

Both these prepositions may take an infinitive or a subjunctive clause, usually dependent on whether the subject is the same as in the main clause. The first may also interpose the complement particle ig /aj/ before a subjunctive clause, while the second can also be used with nouns.

A fin ig tu caif y livr teyon rovað, jo calmau ag varous fin all'augtanç. /a fɪn aj ti kef i ˈli.vr̩ tiˈjɔn roˈvaθ | ʒo kalˈmo ɛj vaˈruz fɪn ˌa.lojˈtants/ [ɐˈfɪn aj ti kef i ˈli.vɐ t(j)ɔŋ ʀʊˈvah | ʒo kɐwˈmo ɛj vɐˈʀuz fɪˌna.lʊjˈtans] to end comp 2s get-2s.sbj def book 2s.dem ask.for-ptcp.pst | 1s not.move-pst at.def shop end at.def=delivery So you'd get the book you wanted, I stayed at the shop until it arrived.

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excerpt in translation to Borlish from 1795 seminal work Durgh 'nen Shorzen Shouer (Through a Black Mirror), written originally in Saxon (and translated into Borlish in 1802 as Par un Argent Neir) by Elsebeth Shneider and kickstarting the early parachthon craze for voidtale.

Adagle lou scoutau noc cascun e follau afaç, e com effeit y tel metal rescau a biasc, y dou mitað paubeur faint ny mur eð un roum fasc revelant la doutr. Adelaide ignored them all and stepped forward, and in reaction the metal slab split diagonally, the two halves sliding away and revealing a dark space beyond.

Tandic Herret eð y jammel se sgardaurn confus, l'entrau tras sougl, y bojay leyant haut por ig illuminar situað doutr y port cullig. As Harriet and the twins shared looks of confusion, she stepped inside, lifting up the candle to illuminate what lay beyond the strange door.

Soulor sta Adagle pront comprendent. "No spou," murmurau i, ne l'entarn veint. Then Adelaide promptly understood. "Surely not," she muttered, as she saw the interior.

L'intermane tout metal ligs: gendr colloir voutað, de form trelamner, con—vagscrit parcanç—sur y mur. Ny vesteul polið lontanessem la stan— It was all smooth metal: a sort of vaulted corridor, triangular in shape, with—perhaps nameplates—on the walls. Further down the polished vestibule were—

"No spou," redis i partenendessem, dec i vis ig la stant—tras y grant hal, posc y ci tablaur stragn e scaðr vogt, la sta un fenestr. "Surely not," she said again more pointedly, as she saw what was there—across the large hall, past the odd tables and glass frames, there was a window.

Un fenestr titan ant un vogt fosc doutr. Sauf ig vertaðer i no sta fosc, noc enter. An enormous window with dark, empty space beyond it. Except it wasn't dark, not quite.

Le relusern tant mil a stel. It was lit by thousands of stars.