nature we are cautioned by such examples against the indulgence of passions, which could imbitter the benevolence, and pervert the good sense, of the mild, the judicious Addison. Succeeding travellers have improved on this author's defects, and loaded their pages with misrepresentation and invective while, within the last ten years, some tourists have employed their journals as vehicles of revolutionary madness, and instead of the laudes Italia and the fortia facta patrum have given the public elaborate panegyrics on the French generals, and accounts of their achievements as exaggerated as their own des patches.*

*The best guide or rather companion" which the traveller can take with him, is Corinne ou l'Italie, a work of singular ingenuity and eloquence. In it Madame de Staël does ample justice to the Italian character; though a Protestant she speaks of the religion of Italy with reverence, and treats even superstition itself with indulgence. She describes the

To conclude this topic, an attentive traveller, after having acquired the preparatory knowledge recommended in the preceding pages, may safely rely on his own diligence, aided by the observations of the intelligent inhabitants, and by the maps and guides to be procured in every great town. Books, though necessary, are an incumberance which never fails to increase as we advance; we ought therefore to confine ourselves to the classics, if possible, and even then we shall find our library sufficiently numerous and bulky.

XI. Maps form an indispensable part of a traveller's furniture. At setting out, two

climate, the beauties, the monuments of that privileged country with glowing animation, Museo contingens cuncta lepore; she raises the reader above the common level of thought, and inspires him with that lofty temper of mind, without which we can neither discover nor relish the great and the beautiful in art or in nature.

will be sufficient: one of Ancient, one of Modern Italy. Of the former D'Anville's is the best; of the latter, an excellent one, extremely beautiful in the execution, and upon a scale large enough for information without being burthensome, has been published by Zannoni.* As the traveller advances, he must enrich his collection, and procure in its principal town, the map of each province or division. At Milan, he will find separate maps of the lakes and the various regions of the Milanese. At Mantua, a beautiful, correct, but I believe scarce map, of that city and its vicinity, should be inquired for. At Bologna may be had the excellent maps of the Roman territory by Father Boscovich. At Rome

* The map prefixed to the present edition has been copied from that of Zannoni alluded to. It is very accurate, and well executed, and does credit to the ingenious engraver, Mr. Smith.

may be purchased a map of the patrimony of St. Peter, and one of Latium. These I recommend, as they give the ancient and modern names of each town and territory, and at the same time mark the ancient roads, aqueducts, and ruins. The great and beautiful map of Rome must not be neglected, though if it should be deemed too expensive and bulky, there are two others of a smaller and more convenient size. The best map of the kingdom of Naples is in four sheets, well printed, and said to be very accurate, by Zannoni. There are moreover, three maps of Naples and its neighborhood, of the bay and its islands, of exquisite beauty in execution and ornament. These of course every traveller will purchase.*

* Maps on the same scale, and of the same beauty, of all the provinces of the Neapolitan territory, havej I believe, been since published. htt

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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 devoted 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 occupation than for leisure. Occupation, necessary at all seasons, but particularly in youth, should be furnished, and no occu

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restless and the body active, better than