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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
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ACCOMMODATIONS.
A few words upon the inns and accom-
modations in Italy will be sufficient. An
English traveller must, the very instant he
embarks for the Continent, resign many of
the comforts and conveniencies which he
enjoys at home, and which he does not
sufficiently prize, because he is seldom in
the way of learning their value by privation.
Great will be his disappointment if, on his
arrival, he expects a warm room, a news-
paper, and a wTell-stored larder. These ad-
vantages are common enough at home, but
they are not to be found in any inn on the
Continent, not even Dessennes at Calais or
the Maison Rouge at Frankfort, But the
principal and most offensive defect abroad
is the want of cleanliness, a defect in a
greater or lesser degree common to all parts
of the Continent. In Italy, to which these
47
ACCOMMODATIONS.
A few words upon the inns and accom-
modations in Italy will be sufficient. An
English traveller must, the very instant he
embarks for the Continent, resign many of
the comforts and conveniencies which he
enjoys at home, and which he does not
sufficiently prize, because he is seldom in
the way of learning their value by privation.
Great will be his disappointment if, on his
arrival, he expects a warm room, a news-
paper, and a wTell-stored larder. These ad-
vantages are common enough at home, but
they are not to be found in any inn on the
Continent, not even Dessennes at Calais or
the Maison Rouge at Frankfort, But the
principal and most offensive defect abroad
is the want of cleanliness, a defect in a
greater or lesser degree common to all parts
of the Continent. In Italy, to which these