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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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