Pictures from Italy. American Notes

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PICTUEES FEOM ITALY. AMEEICAN NOTES. By CHARLES DICKENS. Uniform with this Volume. THE PICKWICK PAPERS. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. OLIVER TWIST. SKETCHES BY BOZ. BARNABY RUDGE. THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. DOMBEY AND SON. DAVID COPPERFIELD. PLAYING AT MOKA. PICTURES FROM ITALY AMERICAN NOTES BY CHARLES DICKENS LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL MANCHESTER AND NEW-YORK LONDON : PRINTED BY J. S. VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, CITY ROAD. CONTENTS. PICTURES FROM ITALY. PA OR THB READER'S PASSPORT ......... 1 GOING THROUGH FRANCE ...4 LYONS, THE RHONE, AND THE GOBLIN OF AVIGNON .... 12 AVIGNON TO GENOA 21 GENOA AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD ....... 20 TO PARMA, MODENA, AND BOLOGNA . . . . . . .67 THROUGH BOLOGNA AND FERRARA . . i .... 66 AN ITALIAN DREAM .72 BY VERONA, MANTUA, AND MILAN, ACROSS THE PASS OF THE SIMPLON INTO SWITZERLAND 81 TO ROME BT PISA AND SIENA ....••••07 ROME . . . • . • • • • • • .111 A RAPID DIORAMA — TO NAPLES ...»•••••. 156 NAPLES ....••••••• 159 POMPEII — HERCULANEUM ........ 163 PÆSTUM • l6^ VI CONTENTS, r.\--t A RAPID DIORAMA (continued) — Vesuvius . ......... • 167 RETURN TO NAPLES . . . . . . • . .170 174 MONTE CASINO 7L01ILNCJI . . . • . . . . . • .17" AMERICAN NOTES.

CHATTER f. GOING AWAY . . . . . . * . . .185 II. THE TASSAGE OUT ......... 193 ni. boston 20S IV. AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. — LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM . 245 V. WORCESTER. — THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. — HARTFORD. — NEW HAVEN. — TO NEW YOllK . 254 TI. NEW YORK 263 Vn. PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON ..... 281 Till. WASHINGTON. — TIIE LEGISLATURE. AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE 297 *QC. A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. — RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. — THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. — A CANAL BOAT 3J3 X. SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. — JOURNEY TO PITTSBURO ACROSS THE ALLEQHANT MOUNTAINS. — PITTSBURO , , CONTENTS. VII CIUPTEB PAOa XI. FROM PITTSBURG 10 CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAMBOAT. — CINCINNATI ......... 341 XII.

FHOM ClNCINNAfl TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM- BOAT ; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. — ST. LOUIS 350 xiii. a jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and bacx . . 362 xiv. return to cincinnati. a stage-coach ride from that city to columbus, and thence to 8a.ndusky. — 60, by lake erie, to the falls of niaqaba 370 xt. in canada *, toronto ; kingston ; montreal ; quebec * st. John's. — in the united states again; Lebanon; the shaker village ; and west point 387 xvi. the tassage home ........ 405 xvii. slavery . . • • • • . . • .413 xvm. concluding remarks ■••■•■•• PICTURES FROM ITALY. THE READER'S PASSPORT. If the readers of this volume -will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect.