The Second Evening When Near
Sarzana, It Being Very Dark, I Somehow Or Other Got Out Of The Road And My
Mule Fell With Me Into A Very Deep Ditch; But I Was Only Slightly Bruised
By The Fall; My Clothes However Were Covered With Dirt And Wet.
The road
from Genoa to Sarzana might with very little expense be made fit for
carriages by widening it.
At present it is only a bridle road, and on some
parts of it, on the sides of ravines, it is I think a little ticklish to
trust entirely to the discretion of one's monture; at least I thought so
and dismounted twice to pass such places on foot. A winding stream is to be
forded in two or three places, but it is not deep except after rains; and
then I think it must be sometimes dangerous to pass, till the waters run
off. Those, who are fond of mountain scenery will, like myself, be highly
gratified in making this journey; for it is thro' the loftiest, wildest and
most romantic part of the Appennines. From Sarzana I hired a cabriolet to
return to Pisa and from thence I took the diligence to Florence.
FERRARA.
On the 9th of May I set out from Florence on my journey hither. Two days'
journey brought me to Bologna where I stopped one day; and the following
day I reached this place (Ferrara), six miles distant from Bologna. The
country between these two cities is a perfect plain and very fertile.
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