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observance of defin. IV. Euclid, I. * ; and when we had got
to Porta di Chiaja, they became as stationary as the pillars of
Hercules.—What was to be done but, instead of being squired
home by him, to drag the gentleman all the way back to
his own door, where he was saluted by madame with an
“ 0 chc bestia !!” and where I once more bade her “ felicis-
simanoltea wish, the realization of which I had, under
existing circumstances, the greatest doubts of.
The reception and attention I met with at the house of
Don Ignazio, is another instance of that goodness of heart
and hospitality of the honest Neapolitans which it has been
my good fortune to experience from every one of them since
the first day of my arrival in this city. Besides two English
families, to whom I had letters of recommendation, and
whose houses are open to me at all times, I then knew not a
soul here. Now it will require a full week to take leave of
all those from whom I, an utter stranger, have received ci-
vilities, nay, real marks of friendship, which, in the whole
course of my future life, I shall always remember with gra-
titude. To separate from such a people would cost a strug-
gle, were it not to return to the happy shores of Old England,
to you, my dear T. and to every thing dearest to my heart.
Farewell.
Your’s, &c.
* * * *
LETTER XIII.
Naples, ———, 1802.
My dear T.
NEXT to Rome, and, perhaps, without this exception,
no spot on the whole globe can presume to rival this city and
its
* A right line is the shortest distance between two points.
observance of defin. IV. Euclid, I. * ; and when we had got
to Porta di Chiaja, they became as stationary as the pillars of
Hercules.—What was to be done but, instead of being squired
home by him, to drag the gentleman all the way back to
his own door, where he was saluted by madame with an
“ 0 chc bestia !!” and where I once more bade her “ felicis-
simanoltea wish, the realization of which I had, under
existing circumstances, the greatest doubts of.
The reception and attention I met with at the house of
Don Ignazio, is another instance of that goodness of heart
and hospitality of the honest Neapolitans which it has been
my good fortune to experience from every one of them since
the first day of my arrival in this city. Besides two English
families, to whom I had letters of recommendation, and
whose houses are open to me at all times, I then knew not a
soul here. Now it will require a full week to take leave of
all those from whom I, an utter stranger, have received ci-
vilities, nay, real marks of friendship, which, in the whole
course of my future life, I shall always remember with gra-
titude. To separate from such a people would cost a strug-
gle, were it not to return to the happy shores of Old England,
to you, my dear T. and to every thing dearest to my heart.
Farewell.
Your’s, &c.
* * * *
LETTER XIII.
Naples, ———, 1802.
My dear T.
NEXT to Rome, and, perhaps, without this exception,
no spot on the whole globe can presume to rival this city and
its
* A right line is the shortest distance between two points.