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PICTURES OF TRAVEL

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ITALY.

(1828.)

 
"Hafiz and Ulrich Hütten, too,
Must don their arms, and get to blows,
Against the cowls, both brown and blue,
My fate like other Christians' goes." —GOETHE.

I.

JOURNEY FROM MUNICH TO GENOA.

"A noble soul never comes into your reckoning; and it is that which to-day has foundered your wisdom. (He opens his desk, and takes out two pistols, of which he loads one and lays the other on the table.") — ROBERT'S Power of Circumstances.

CHAPTER I.

I am the politest man in the world. I am happy in the reflection that I have never been rude in this life, where there are so many in-