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| 37. | 1. | Smith, Tour on the Continent, i, 211, 212. |
| 2. | Wright illustrates the ingenious device (still often found in Germany) used in crossing the Po near Borgo Porte. At a point in the middle of the stream a strong chain or cable was fastened, the other end being attached to the ferry-boat, which by the force of the current was swung from one bank to the other at the pleasure of the steersman. See Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, etc., i, 33, 34. | |
| 3. | Bromley, Several Years' Travels, p. 205; Starke, Letters from Italy, ii, 363. | |
| 4. | Lettres sur l'Italie, i, 312. | |
| 5. | Between Cologne and Amsterdam "there are no less than twelve of those oppressors." Cogan, The Rhine, i, 308. | |
| 38. | 1. | Crudities, ii, 307. |
| 2. | Cogan, The Rhine, i, 11. | |
| 3. | Ibid., i, 308. | |
| 4. | "In the great boats, which are drawn by horses, the common rate (from Cologne to Mainz) is a crown a-piece, a little over or under; and if the passengers please, they may land at any town by the way, to dine or sup." Misson, New Voyage to Italy, i2, 495 | |
| 5. | Cogan, The Rhine, ii, 275. | |
| 39. | 1. | Tour through Germany, p. 195. |
| 2. | Letters, i, 206. | |
| 3. | Letters from Italy, ii, 249, 250. | |
| 4. | Ibid., ii, 254. | |
| 40. | 1. | Nugent, Grand Tour, i, 315. These directions fill the last fifty-eight pages of volume i. Compare also the following: "Directions to know at what time the post-waggons, coaches, draw-boats, sailing-boats, and market-boats set out from all the principal towns of the Low Countries, especially of the United Provinces, to the following towns and places; according to the alphabetical order." Ibid., i, 334–67. |
| 2. | Ibid., i, 48, 49. | |
| 41. | 1. | The same is noted in Bromley's Several Years' Travels, (1702), p. 280. |
| 2. | A Description of Holland, pp. 349–50, note. | |
| 3. | In Misson's time the journey by canal from Brussels to Antwerp required seven hours; from Bruges to Ostend, three hours. See New Voyage to Italy, ii2, 531, 550. | |
| 4. | Smith, Tour on the Continent, i, 6. | |
| 5. | New Voyage to Italy, i1, 3. | |
| 42. | 1. | Nugent, Grand Tour, i, 279. |
| 2. | Misson, New Voyage to Italy, i2, 582. | |
| 3. | Nugent, Grand Tour, i, 202. | |
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| 43. | 1. | On the relative excellence of ancient and modern roads, see Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners, i, 275. |
| 2. | For the routes of the Roman roads, see ibid., p. 272. On the lack of roads, see p. 277. | |
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