Havre-de-Grâce – Stay there – Mr. Eyriès and his country home – Dealers in natural history objects – Large amount of foreign curiosities – Cabinets – The harbor and trade – Stores – the Bavarian consul Mr. Meinel – Trip to Harfleur – Pack voyage on the steamboat Le Rouannais to Rouen – Stay there – The cathedral – Dealers in natural history objects – Departure from Rouen to Abbeville – Stay there – The cabinets of Messrs. Baillon and Delamotte – Rüppel’s stranded natural history objects at the mouth of the Somme – Journey via Montreuil – Boulogne – Calais to Dunkerque – Stay there – Embarkation on the steamboat Graaf Cancrin for Rotterdam – Stay at Rotterdam – Embarkation on the steamboat Zeuw (or Nederlander) and voyage to Cologne – Journey overland via Bonn to Forch – Walk via Hammerstein, and arrival at Monrepos.
August 24, 1834
In the morning, as during the night, [there was] much rain, wind, and cloudy weather. About ten thirty we reached Cologne and disembarked at the Rheinberg. There had been a large military parade, and we [saw] the very handsome regiment of dragoons marching back to the barracks at Beuel. After lunch I took a carriage to Bonn, where we arrived at four o’clock; it rained hard afterward. I visited Dr. Nees at Poppelsdorf.