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San Marcello. 225 Pistoja, but this only makes the journey longer, more fatiguing, and expensive. For twelve francs a carriage with two horses may be hired at Pracchia for the drive to San Marcello. There is alsoa public conveyance which goes to and fro twice a day, but it is dirty and close, and your companions are not always of the cleanest-er pleasantest description. The eight miles drive to San Marcello, in the midst of grand scenery, is truly delightful. The mountains are neither snow-capped nor barren, but covered with splendid Spanish, horse-chestnut and acacia trees, suggesting freshness and shade. ‘The road ascends gradually the whole way to San Marcello, so that it was impossible to WOM ANY ~ WAY NS S N \\ WN S SS \\ \\t\ \\ \ \ \ \ SS Z De \ ——$—$———— ANWAR \ SSS para =f ii hi er | fs m r te ——— - allt : a = ‘i "y b 4 7 ” ‘ as . 4 i, \ / ' 3s = : <y =) 1 = ~ me h mo y { I i So —- We . ) + } hy == by , ue Le WA — : My La 73 if a 3s — ’ "221 4 ——. — et | ,, e _ . / Ins E »' Sie ? I i? . .-. ii ° ~! oer } 2” a - r ’ \e > ~ - SS SAN MARCELLO. drive very fast, and not until half-past twelve did we reach our desti- nation. The man-servant had preceded us, and our noonday meal was already spread in a cool room, the windows of which were darkened by thick sun-blinds; the floor was of brick, and everything was cal- culated to overcome heat. ‘This room opened into a more furnished salon partially covered with carpet ; there were sofas and easy chairs in abundance, plenty of books from a well-established library (Vieusseux’s) in Florence, a good piano which we hired from Pistoja, all serving to make this an agreeable lounge after meals. The front bed-rooms, with brick floors and of fair size, looked out on a small piazza, always lively on account of the cafés which lined it. Even in the country, an Italian would not be happy if he did not pass an hour or two in these lounges in the evening, smoking and VOL. XXXII. Q CONnMIEMOOOKS. CO