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| 63. | 2. | Vol. iii, p. 39. |
| 3. | With this it is interesting to compare the suggestions offered to travelers nearly a century later, in Coghlan's Handbook for Italy (p. xiv):— "In the Italian states there are three modes of conveyance: posting, by diligence, and by veitturini; travellers by the first mode should always provide a bolletone at the police-office, without which no post-horses can be obtained. "In Italy, as in France, the number of horses put to a carriage is regulated by the number of persons; thus a post-chaise with two persons requires two horses, three persons three horses, and four persons four horses; but in those parts of Northern Italy where the roads are level, a calash, or open carriage, with three persons and one trunk, is allowed to travel with two horses. "In Tuscany, an English post-chaise with a pole, conveying three persons and without an imperial, if the road is not mountainous, is allowed to travel with two horses, but if there is an imperial it must have three horses; and English carriages, with four persons, imperial and trunks, must have four horses. "In the papal dominions, a two- wheeled carriage, with three persons and one trunk, is allowed to travel with two horses, but with more than one trunk three horses are indispensable; a four-wheeled carriage, with six persons and one trunk, is allowed to travel with four horses, but with six persons and two large trunks, or with seven persons, it must have six horses; a four-wheeled half-open carriage, much in use all over Italy, with two persons and one trunk, is allowed to travel with two horses. "In the Neapolitan territories, a two-wheeled carriage, with two persons and one large trunk, is allowed to travel with two horses, with three persons and two large trunks, three horses; with four persons and two large trunks, four horses; but with six persons and two large trunks, six horses are indispensable." | |
| 4. | The distance between posting-stations all over Italy ranged from eight to ten miles. Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 307. | |
| 5. | Travels, ii, 76. | |
| 6. | Voyage en Italie, i, 6. | |
| 7. | Ibid., i, 5. | |
| 64. | 1. | Keysler, Travels, i, 348, 349. |
| 2. | View of Society and Manners in Italy, i, 10. | |
| 3. | So in the region about Capua: "The Buffaloes, which draw most of the Carriages in this part of the Country, were brought in originally by Alphonsus I. They are an ugly, stubborn, and sometimes mischievous Animal, but live upon Straw and are of prodigious Strength and Service." Breval, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, i, 74. Wright remarks: "The carriages in Lombardy, and indeed throughout all Italy, are for the most part drawn with oxen. … In the kingdom of Naples, and some other parts, they use buffaloes in their carriages." |
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