[1]. In preparing these letters for the press, I have consulted some papers entitled “Sketches of Bohemia and the Sclavonian Provinces of the Austrian Empire,” by Henry Reeve, Esq., published in the 18th and 19th vols. of the Metropolitan Magazine. They are admirably written, and it is greatly to be regretted that they do not proceed to a greater length, and are lost in a Magazine.
[2]. Mr. Reeve.
[3]. Life of Wallenstein, by Colonel Mitchell.
[4]. Rogers’s “Italy.”
[5]. Mr. Reeve.
[6]. Paradise Regained.
[7]. Milton. Do these lines, in the “Paradise Lost,” refer in the poet’s mind to his first view of Florence? It seems very probable.
[8]. Wordsworth.
[9]. Addison.
[10]. On this subject only Murray’s Hand-book seems to run faulty—a lower price for voiture travelling is always named than I have found it possible to attain. It is easy to allege that we were imposed upon. It may be so; but it was difficult to believe this in some instances, where the bargain was made for us by friends, natives of the country. In the Hand-book of Italy this is the more remarkable, and I can speak with greater certainty. I do not know how it may be with a single man taking his place,—one among many, as it may chance,—but for a party, like ourselves, taking a whole carriage, the expense in proportion is far higher than he mentions.