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64.	3.	Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, etc., i, 32. See also ibid., i, 119, 120.
	4.	Baretti, Manners and Customs of Italy, p. 280.
	5.	Already in the sixteenth century "in Italy the vetturino system was in force — that is, a personally conducted tour, the traveller being relieved from all haggling with natives. By this predecessor of the Cook system Moryson travelled from Rome to Naples and back." Hughes, Life of Fynes Moryson, p. ix.
65.	1.	New Voyage to Italy, i2, 550.
	2.	Views Afoot, pp. 102, 403.
	3.	He agreed to take them from Florence to Rome "for ten sequins, all accommodation included." Tour on the Continent, i, 339.
	4.	Ibid., i, 297.
	5.	New Voyage to Italy, i2, 540.
	6.	Nugent in his Grand Tour (1756), iii, 378, repeats Misson's information, except that he states the charge at fifteen crowns instead of fifteen piasters; and adds: "You pay your own expences at Naples, board and lodging one crown a day each person, and half a crown for your servant." William Bromley at the end of the seventeenth century paid seventeen crowns for the trip from Rome to Naples and back, having five days at Naples. His trip is essentially Misson's. See Several Years' Travels, etc., p. 122.
66.	1.	Travels, iii, 1.
	2.	Ibid., iii, 15.
	3.	But see Grand Tour, iii, 39.
	4.	Ibid., iii, 378.
67.	1.	Journey, Works, ix, 259, 260.
	2.	Baretti, in criticizing Sharp, who had hired a vetturino to go to Rome, asks, "Did he not conceive that by such a bargain he made it the interest of the fellow to take him to the cheapest inns, which is as much as to say the most beggarly, that the feeding of his fare might cost him little?" Manners and Customs of Italy, i, 26.
	3.	Such early hours for stages are still common, even in summer, at San Marino, at Varese, and other places too numerous to mention.
	4.	Grand Tour, iii, 39.
	5.	Autobiography, ii, 344 (Bohn).
	6.	Moreover, De La Lande, who is not usually censorious, points out several other disadvantages of this system. "It is a sort of post, much less expensive, for which a special permission is required, but it does not travel at night. Besides, the masters of the post are not content when they see people who have the cambiatura, the postilions do not drive you so fast; and sometimes the post-masters annoy travellers by having their carriages weighed so as to charge for whatever is above a hundred pounds." Voyage en Italie, i, 265.
	7.	Travels, ii, 37.
	8.	New Voyage to Italy, i2, 539.
	9.	Tour on the Continent, ii, 117.

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