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56 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
one of the greatest advantages of travellings
an opportunity of selecting friends, and
forming sincere and durable attachments;
for, as Ovid observes in some beautiful lines,
there is not a stronger bond than that which
is formed by a participation of the acci-
dents and of the vicissitudes of a long and
eventful journey. *
SCENERY.
The general face of the country, so con-
spicuously beautiful all over Italy, merits
from this circumstance alone peculiar at-
tention, and when to its picturesque fea-
* Te duce, magnificas Asiae perspeximus Urbes’;
Trinacris est oculis, te duce, nota meis.
Vidimus Etnaea. ccelum splendescere flamma;
Suppositus monti quam vomit ore gigas:
Hennmosque lacus, et olentia stagna Palici,
Quaque suis Cyanen miscet Anapus aquis
Et quota pars haec sunt rerum, quas vidimus ambo,
Te milii jucundas efficiente vias!
one of the greatest advantages of travellings
an opportunity of selecting friends, and
forming sincere and durable attachments;
for, as Ovid observes in some beautiful lines,
there is not a stronger bond than that which
is formed by a participation of the acci-
dents and of the vicissitudes of a long and
eventful journey. *
SCENERY.
The general face of the country, so con-
spicuously beautiful all over Italy, merits
from this circumstance alone peculiar at-
tention, and when to its picturesque fea-
* Te duce, magnificas Asiae perspeximus Urbes’;
Trinacris est oculis, te duce, nota meis.
Vidimus Etnaea. ccelum splendescere flamma;
Suppositus monti quam vomit ore gigas:
Hennmosque lacus, et olentia stagna Palici,
Quaque suis Cyanen miscet Anapus aquis
Et quota pars haec sunt rerum, quas vidimus ambo,
Te milii jucundas efficiente vias!