Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . and fyme fay that Italian is fpoken beft here, if youtake in both the language and the pronunciation together, whichare confidered feparately in the proverb, Lingua Tofranil inbocca Romana. The Tufcan language in a Roman Sienna be fo near Florence, and now under its dominion,Ididnpt obferve any of that guttural pronunciation which the Florentines. 373 LEGHORN. Florentines have. They do not like the Florentine yoke fo well,as to compliment them in their difagreeable manner of fpe
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . and fyme fay that Italian is fpoken beft here, if youtake in both the language and the pronunciation together, whichare confidered feparately in the proverb, Lingua Tofranil inbocca Romana. The Tufcan language in a Roman Sienna be fo near Florence, and now under its dominion,Ididnpt obferve any of that guttural pronunciation which the Florentines. 373 LEGHORN. Florentines have. They do not like the Florentine yoke fo well,as to compliment them in their difagreeable manner of fpeaking. LEGHORN. T E G H O R N, the Libernum of the antients, now Livorno,?*— is too well known to the Englifh nation to need much tobe faid of it. There are fo many Englifh always refidingthere, and fo many of our merchant-fhips ufe that port, thatour language is underftood by many natives of that place ; fothat even in walking along the ftreets, one fhould not fpeakthat in Englifh, which he would not care to have a Livorninehear. This is the only city in Italy where the Englifh nationis allowed to have the free exercife of their religion. Theirchapel is a handfome apartment in the confuls houfe, whichis large and fine, and efteemed the beff. in the city. From thetop of this houfe one may fee eight or nine feveral independentdominions, or fuch at lead as have been lately fo. We faw at Mr. Crows, who was then chaplain of the fac-tory, a fine collectio
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