I Might Have Saved Some Money By Prosecuting My Voyage Directly
By Sea To Leghorn:
But, by this time, we were all heartily tired
of the water, the business then was to travel by land to
Florence, by the way of Pisa, which is seven posts distant from
Lerici.
Those who have not their own carriage must either hire
chaises to perform the whole journey, or travel by way of
cambiatura, which is that of changing the chaises every post, as
the custom is in England. In this case the great inconvenience
arises from your being obliged to shift your baggage every post.
The chaise or calesse of this country, is a wretched machine with
two wheels, as uneasy as a common cart, being indeed no other
than what we should call in England a very ill-contrived one-horse
chair, narrow, naked, shattered and shabby. For this
vehicle and two horses you pay at the rate of eight paoli a
stage, or four shillings sterling; and the postilion expects two
paoli for his gratification: so that every eight miles cost about
five shillings, and four only, if you travel in your own
carriage, as in that case you pay no more than at the rate of
three paoli a horse.
About three miles from Lerici, we crossed the Magra, which
appeared as a rivulet almost dry, and in half a mile farther
arrived at Sarzana, a small town at the extremity of the Genoese
territories, where we changed horses.
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