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 25, 1834
I took a carriage early and drove to Remagen, [then] from there to Forch, where I took a shallop and crossed to Hammerstein, [employed] an errand boy, and reached Monrepos about noon, [after walking] through mountains and forest, and surprised all of my family, [who were] completely healthy.