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point; and I afterwards found more fa-
vour in the sight of the librarians. As
yet I had not delivered my letters to those
persons, whose countenance, in my fu-
ture visits, procured me every satisfaction
which this library could afford.
A gentleman of Parma, with whom
I had travelled from Paris, having a
letter from M. Messier to Padre Bos-
covich, giving him an account of a new
comet which he had discovered on the
eleventh of June, I had the pleasure of
accompanying my friend in his visit to
this father at the Jesuits College, who
received us both with great courtesy; and
being told that I was an Englishman,
a lover of the sciences, and ambitious
of seeing so celebrated a man, he ad-
dressed himself to me in a particular
manner.
He had several young students of qua-
lity with him, and said he expected that
morning three persons of distinction to
see his instruments, and invited me to be
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