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| 49. | 5. | short by the corner of a hedge, one of our horses fell into a deep slough, in which the wheels of our carriage on the left side were instantly buried." Cogan, The Rhine, ii, 78. |
| 50. | 1. | New Voyage to Italy, i1, 87. |
| 2. | Ibid., i2, 503. | |
| 3. | Breval, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, ii, 69. | |
| 4. | Grand Tour, ii, 68. | |
| 5. | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, p. 231. A little later he adds (p. 246): "As soon as the roads were passable, we left Cassel, and arrived, not without difficulty and some risk, at Munden." | |
| 6. | Tour through Germany, pp. 73, 74. | |
| 7. | Tour in Germany, ii, 7. | |
| 8. | Ibid., ii, 1. | |
| 51. | 1. | Letters from Italy, ii, 230, 231. |
| 2. | Cogan, The Rhine, ii, 259. | |
| 3. | In 1750, Voltaire notes that "one is mired in summer in august Germany." He adds: "Of all modern nations, France and the little country of the Belgians are the only ones that have roads worthy of antiquity." Cited by Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, p. 262. | |
| 4. | Essex, Journal of a Tour, etc., p. 55. | |
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| 52. | 1. | Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 17. |
| 2. | The Gentleman's Guide, p. 44. | |
| 3. | This appears to have been modeled after the vehicle that Coryate used early in the century: "I departed from Montrel in a cart, according to the fashion of the country, which had three hoopes over it, that were covered with a sheet of course canvasse." Crudities, i, 160. | |
| 4. | Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, p. 10. | |
| 5. | Clenche(?), A Tour in France and Italy, p. 21. He adds: "Doggs of no kind worth a farthing, and, to conclude, such is the nature of the clime or soyl, that it produces no animal in perfection, but asses," p. 22. | |
| 53. | 1. | (Jones) Journey to Paris (1776), I, 32. |
| 2. | Ibid., i, 66, 67. | |
| 3. | Travels, i, 5. | |
| 4. | Letters, p. 16. | |
| 5. | The general bureau of diligences and stage-coaches for the entire kingdom was at Paris, in the Rue Nôtre Dame des Victoires Subordinate bureaus were to be found in all the large towns. Thierry, Almanach des Voyageurs (1785), p. 109. As for prices, "The terms on which you travel are explained in the Liste générale des Postes de France, which keeps one from being cheated." (Jones) Journey to Paris (1776), i, 33. | |
| 54. | 1. | Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 19. |
| 2. | One traveled in the diligence from Paris to Lyons in five days | |
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