A CLASSICAL AND HISTORICAL TOUR THROUGH FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AND ITALY, IN THE YEARS 1821 AND 1822: INCLUDING A SUMMARY HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES, AND MOST MEMORABLE REVOLUTIONS: A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMED EDIFICES, AND WORKS OF ART, ANCIENT, AS WELL AS MODERN: WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST STRIKING CLASSIC FICTIONS AND CEREMONIES; "Quoniam diu vixisse denegatur, aliquid faciamus quo possimus ostendere IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY. PREFACE. THE ensuing Pages, in their commencement, were penned as simple Mementoes of a Continental Tour; as reminiscences to the individual of the beauties of nature and art explored in such a journey; as interesting, perhaps, to particular friends, yet claiming little thought or pretension to the publicity of the press. But that practice whose first views were so simple, a wish for deeper information gradually extended; and that occupation which in the beginning was mere amusement, insensibly became a decided and systematic pursuit : To the lighter and playful journal of the hour I made occasional historical and critical additions; I sought for every object that could be deemed most worthy of notice in the line of my travels, and I, as immediately, wrote a summary, or |