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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
31
ROUTE.
XII. We are now to speak of the time
requisite to make a full and complete Tour
of Italy, as well as of the season best
adapted to the commencement of such a
tour. A year, I think, is the shortest
space that ought to be allotted, and a year
and a half or even two years might be
well devotee! to this useful and amusing
part of our travels. The want of leisure is
the only objection that can be made to
this arrangement, but it is an objection
seldom well grounded, as youth in general
from nineteen to three or four-and-twenty,
have more time than business, and seem
much more frequently at a loss for occu-
pation than for leisure. Occupation, ne-
cessary at all seasons, but particularly in
youth, should be furnished, and no occu-
pation can suit that age when the mind is
restless and the body active, better than
31
ROUTE.
XII. We are now to speak of the time
requisite to make a full and complete Tour
of Italy, as well as of the season best
adapted to the commencement of such a
tour. A year, I think, is the shortest
space that ought to be allotted, and a year
and a half or even two years might be
well devotee! to this useful and amusing
part of our travels. The want of leisure is
the only objection that can be made to
this arrangement, but it is an objection
seldom well grounded, as youth in general
from nineteen to three or four-and-twenty,
have more time than business, and seem
much more frequently at a loss for occu-
pation than for leisure. Occupation, ne-
cessary at all seasons, but particularly in
youth, should be furnished, and no occu-
pation can suit that age when the mind is
restless and the body active, better than