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| 68. | 1. | But, as Misson had already observed, "A traveller ought never to defer enquiring about a carriage, till he is just ready to depart; if he would not be forc'd to submit to the most unreasonable terms." New Voyage to Italy, i2, 562. |
| 2. | Grand Tour, iii, 40, 41. | |
| 69. | 1. | Cogan, The Rhine, ii, 258. |
| 2. | Letters from Italy, ii, 211. | |
| 3. | As late as 1756 Nugent cites two striking instances: "There is no post-waggon from Leipsic to Prague, but a sort of heavy coach by the way of Chemnitz, which sets out on Wednesday towards eleven in the morning and comes back on Sunday noon." Grand Tour, ii, 249. "From Dresden to Prague there is no post-waggon, so that you must either hire a coach or chaise for the whole journey, or travel with post-horses." Ibid., ii, 257. | |
| 4. | Ibid., ii, 68. | |
| 70. | 1. | Misson, New Voyage to Italy, i2, 487–88. |
| 2. | "The stages or post-waggons, as they are called, are slow, heavy, and disagreeable in every respect." Tour in Germany, (1793). p. 2. | |
| 3. | Grand Tour, ii, 67, 68. Cf. ibid., i, 175, 176. | |
| 71. | 1. | Riesbeck, Travels through Germany, p. 231. |
| 2. | Tour in Germany, i, 13, 14. | |
| 3. | Page 2. | |
| 4. | Grand Tour, ii, 68. | |
| 5. | Ibid., ii, 69. | |
| 72. | 1. | Letters from Italy, ii, 187, 188. |
| 2. | Nugent, Grand Tour, ii, 282, 283. | |
| 73. | 1. | Ibid., i, 65. |
| 2. | Tour in Holland, p. 11. | |
| 3. | Grand Tour, i, 49. | |
| 4. | Ibid., i, 205. | |
| 5. | Ibid., i, 367–72. | |
| 6. | Ibid., i, 326. | |
| 74. | 1. | Ibid., i, 326. |
| 2. | Smith, Tour on the Continent, i, 5. | |
| 3. | Cogan, The Rhine, i, 45. | |
| 4. | A Description of Holland (1743), p. 159. | |
| 5. | Ibid., p. 211. | |
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| 75. | 1. | English-French for Dessein's. |
| 2. | Eustace, Classical Tour in Italy, i, 46, 47. | |
| 76. | 1. | Starke, Letters from Italy, ii, 257. |
| 2. | Young speaks of "the bad accommodations even in the high road from London to Rome. On the contrary, go in England to towns that contain 1500, 2000, or 3000 people, in situations absolutely cut off from all dependence, or almost the expectation of what are properly called travellers, yet you will meet with neat inns, well dressed and clean people keeping them, | |
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