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very little utility. The only advantage which, in
his opinion, the greater part of us reaped from our
fix weeks tour, was, that we could fay, we had feen
a great many fine things which he had not feen.
This was a fuperiority which he could not brook,
and which he refolved we mould not long enjoy.
Being fully convinced, that the bufinefs might bej;
with a little exertion, difpatched in a very fhort
fpace of time, he prevailed on a proper perfon to
attend him ; ordered a poft-chaife and four horfes
to be ready early in the morning, and driving thro'
churches, palaces, villas, and ruins, with all pof-
fible expedition, he fairly faw, in two days, all that
we had beheld during our crawling courfe of fix
weeks. I found afterwards, by the lift he kept of
what he had feen, that we had not the advantage of
him in a fmgle picture, or the moft mutilated rem-
nant of a ftatue.
" I do not propofe this young gentleman's plan
as the very beft poffible; but of this I am certain,
that he can give as fatisfadbory an account of the
curiofities of Rome, as fome people of my acquaint-
ance who viewed them with equal fenfibility, and at
a great deal more leifure.
" Thofe travellers who cannot remain a confi-
derable time at Rome, would do well to get a judi-
cious lift of the moft interefting objects in architec-
ture, fculpture, and painting, that are to be feen
here ; they ought to vifit thefe frequently, and thefe
only, by which means they will acquire a ftrong
and diftincb impreffion of what they fee ; inftead of
that tranfient and confufed idea which a vaft num-
ber of things, viewed fupeificially, and in a hurry,
leave
very little utility. The only advantage which, in
his opinion, the greater part of us reaped from our
fix weeks tour, was, that we could fay, we had feen
a great many fine things which he had not feen.
This was a fuperiority which he could not brook,
and which he refolved we mould not long enjoy.
Being fully convinced, that the bufinefs might bej;
with a little exertion, difpatched in a very fhort
fpace of time, he prevailed on a proper perfon to
attend him ; ordered a poft-chaife and four horfes
to be ready early in the morning, and driving thro'
churches, palaces, villas, and ruins, with all pof-
fible expedition, he fairly faw, in two days, all that
we had beheld during our crawling courfe of fix
weeks. I found afterwards, by the lift he kept of
what he had feen, that we had not the advantage of
him in a fmgle picture, or the moft mutilated rem-
nant of a ftatue.
" I do not propofe this young gentleman's plan
as the very beft poffible; but of this I am certain,
that he can give as fatisfadbory an account of the
curiofities of Rome, as fome people of my acquaint-
ance who viewed them with equal fenfibility, and at
a great deal more leifure.
" Thofe travellers who cannot remain a confi-
derable time at Rome, would do well to get a judi-
cious lift of the moft interefting objects in architec-
ture, fculpture, and painting, that are to be feen
here ; they ought to vifit thefe frequently, and thefe
only, by which means they will acquire a ftrong
and diftincb impreffion of what they fee ; inftead of
that tranfient and confufed idea which a vaft num-
ber of things, viewed fupeificially, and in a hurry,
leave