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31. | 2. | Journal of a Tour, etc., p. 3. |
3. | Travels in France, p. 150. | |
4. | Notes on a Journey through France, p. 114. | |
5. | Journal of Major Richard Ferrier, p. 17. | |
6. | Smollett, Travels, 1, 11, 12. It was notorious that one often paid as much for being rowed ashore as for the whole passage. See The Gentleman's Guide, p. 16. | |
7. | The Stranger in France, p. 21. | |
8. | In (Jones) Journey to Paris, i, 8. | |
32. | 1. | Thierry, Almanach du Voyageur, p. 107. |
2. | Travels through France, in Harris's Collection of Voyages and Travels, ii, 734. | |
3. | The Gentleman's Guide, p. 47. | |
4. | There were a half-score or more of canals in France before the Revolution, but the combined length of those open to commerce at the end of the eighteenth century was only about a thousand kilometers. Say, Dictionnaire des Finances. | |
5. | Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 145. | |
33. | 1. | Travels, i, 146. |
2. | The Gentleman's Guide, p. 144. | |
3. | Travels, ii, 3. | |
4. | Ibid., ii, 5, 6. Smith (Tour on the Continent, i, 215) went by felucca along the coast "on account of the badness of the roads and the danger of banditti" (p. 473). | |
5. | Travels, ii, 33. | |
34. | 1. | About $2.25. |
2. | Travels through Italy, p. 457. | |
3. | Ibid., p. 473. | |
4. | Wright, Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, etc., i, 18. | |
5. | Nugent very significantly says: "When the passage by land is easy, a curious traveller will never choose to go by sea." Grand Tour, iii, 41. | |
6. | Nugent, Grand Tour, iii, 377, 378. | |
7. | See Chapter VIII. | |
8. | De La Lande, Voyage en Italie, vii, 439. | |
35. | 1. | Ray, Travels through the State of Venice, etc., in Harris's Collection of Voyages and Travels, ii, 683. |
2. | Tour on the Continent, ii, 374, 380. | |
3. | Letters from Italy, ii, 195. | |
4. | Burnet, Travels, p. 105. | |
36. | 1. | Cf. for example, Breval, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, i, 206, 207. |
2. | Eustace, Classical Tour in Italy, i, 161. To Smith the banks suggest Holland. Tour on the Continent, iii, 2. | |
3. | Keysler, Travels, iv, 1. In Coryate's time the trip from Padua through the Brenta to Venice and return, a journey of fifty miles in all, required about twenty-four hours. Crudities, i, 300. | |
4. | Wright, Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, etc., i, 43. | |
5. | Sharp, Letters from Italy, p. 6. |
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