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| 54. | 2. | three hundred and sixty miles. Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, p. 11. In the middle of the century the diligence was "used chiefly in travelling from Paris to Lyons and from Paris to Brussels." Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 19. |
| 3. | In making the trip to Lyons, James Edward Smith complains of having to rise at four or five in the morning. Tour on the Continent, i, 142, 153. | |
| 4. | Travels, i, 126. | |
| 5. | Page 151. | |
| 6. | Views Afoot, p. 461. | |
| 7. | Fitzgerald, Life of Sterne, i, 331. | |
| 8. | Wright, Some Observations made in Travelling through France and Italy, i, 13, 14. | |
| 55. | 1. | Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, p. 261, says that the pace was generally a gallop and that changing horses took no time. When the route was difficult the distance between relays was only two leagues. |
| 2. | Nugent, Grand Tour, i, 236. | |
| 3. | (Cooper) Gleanings in Europe, i, 112, 113; Peale, Notes on Italy, pp. 10, 11. | |
| 4. | Already in 1775 the Lyons diligences were hung on springs which made them as comfortable as the post-chaises and the berlines. Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, p. 13. | |
| 56. | 1. | Carr, The Stranger in France, 42, 43. |
| 2. | The fare by diligence from Paris to Lyons, three hundred and sixty miles, with "maintenance on the road" was in 1763 one hundred livres. The journey took five days, — the last two days, from Chalons to Lyons, being by boat on the Saone. Carr, The Stranger in France, p. 93, gives the price for a place in the diligence from Rouen to Paris (ninety miles), with luggage, as twenty-three livres, eighteen sols. Smollett, Travels, i, 125, 126. | |
| 3. | Hazlitt found the French stage-coach in his day "a very purgatory of heat, closeness, confinement, and bad smells. Nothing can surpass it but the section of a slave-ship or the Black-hole of Calcutta." Journey, Works, ix, 184. | |
| 57. | 1. | Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 18, 19. |
| 2. | Smith, Tour on the Continent, i, 151. | |
| 3. | Letters from Italy, p. 10. | |
| 4. | Here and there, as, for example, on the road from Avignon to Aix, there were, even late in the century, no fixed stages between several towns, "therefore no stipulated price; and it is the custom of these voituriers, as they are called, to ask a louis d'or, when they mean to take one third." The Gentleman's Guide, etc., p. 150. | |
| 5. | "These carriages drawn by mules make 30 m. a day." Ibid., p. 151. | |
| 6. | See Cook, Life of Ruskin, i, 35, 36. | |
| 7. | Travels in France, p. 56. | |
| 58. | 1. | Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 19–22. |
| 2. | Travels, ii, 255. |
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