great many inconveniences & perplexities on account of our ignorance of the languages of the countries we have passed through.  We were often assured that we should not suffer on this account, for that we should find at all the hotels persons that spoke English- but we have found it otherwise though they pretend in many instances to speak it, it is so imperfect that it is next to impossible to get any ideas-We crossed the channel from Dover to Calais & passed along into Belgium-the first night we spent in Lisle where the thread is manufactured for the gloves &c-We were rather late in reaching the hotel Bellevieu where we intended to spend the night & as it was not very far Mr. T. proposed to go with us ladies & your father to go with the baggage which was to be trundled along by hand after he thought he had gone about far enough he began to make some enquiries & by dint of perseverance ascertained that it was being carried to the hotel d’ Europe & notwithstanding all his remonstrances it still went on to that place.- the fellow insisted there was no such hotel as the Bellevieu- your father then went back to the station & we had gone & the place was just closing up for the night- he finally found a fellow that directed him to another who could speak a little Eng. & he succeeded at last in finding us & took us to the Europe- It was late & rained hard but we just succeeded in making known our wants & had a comfortable night’s rest & a breakfast & went on our way-And we have found continual trouble & vexation & imposition & extortion- the effects of which you will readily perceive cannot be very conducive to restoring health to a nervous invalid-We occasionally meet with Eng. people who have treated us with great kindness- & the countries we have passed through have in general been truly delightful- very delightful & peculiar through