ABSTRACT
Both Davy and Faraday kept journals, and Jane accumulated anecdotes to last her for years. Faraday is most vivid in detailing the modes of conveyance, for he was so unused to travel that things which seemed ordinary to accustomed travellers were extraordinary and interesting to him and, through the lapse of time and change of vehicles, to us. At Plymouth the party embarked in a cartel for Morlaix in Brittany. The carriage had to be taken to pieces for transport and, when the vessel neared Morlaix, Faraday, who had thought to land at once, was filled with indignation to find that they had to wait for a barge full of officers, beggars and porters to come aboard, and were then searched from their hats to their shoes. Often politically irate and socially astonished, Davy was entirely open to delight when it came to fruitful interchange of ideas with the French scientists.
