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[93] Horace, _Epist.,_ II, 1, 156.--ED.
[94] Horace, Sat., i, 5, 26.--ED.
[95] A _carlino_ is of the value of half a franc or five pence English. The
accounts in Naples are kept in _ducati_, _carlini_ and _grani_. Ten
_carlini_ make a ducat and ten _grani_ (a copper coin) make a carlino.
A grano is a _sou_ French in value. The _ducato_ is an imaginary coin.
The _soudo Napoletano_, a handsome silver coin of the size of an _ecu
de six francs_, is equal to twelve carlini.
[96] Not one of these vases was found at Pompeii.--ED.
[97] Horace, _Carm_., II, 1, 7.--ED.
[98] Virgil, _Aen_., VI, 264.--ED.
[99] Virgil, _Aen_., VI, 129.--ED.
CHAPTER XII
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1816
From Rome to Florence--Sismondi the historian--Reminiscences of
India--Lucca--Princess Elisa Baciocchi--Pisa--The Campo Santo--Leghorn--
Hebrews in Leghorn--Lord Dillon--The story of a lost glove--From Florence
to Lausanne by Milan, Turin and across Mont Cenis--Lombardy in winter--The
Hospice of Mont Cenis.
FLORENCE, Novr. 20th.
I bade adieu to Rome on the 28th October and returned here by the same road
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