The innocents abroad; . ; glovesof about as good qualitysell here at three or fourdollars a dozen. Youpay five and six dollarsapiece for fine linenshirts in Paris ; here andin Leghorn you pay twoand a half. In Mar-seilles you pay forty dol-lars for a first-class dresscoat made by a goodtailor, but in Leghornyou can get a full dresssuit for the same you get handsomebusiness suits at fromten to twenty dollars,and in Leghorn you canget an overcoat forfifteen dollars that would cost you seventy in l^ew York. Fine kid boots are wortheight dollars in Marseilles and four dollars here. Lyon
The innocents abroad; . ; glovesof about as good qualitysell here at three or fourdollars a dozen. Youpay five and six dollarsapiece for fine linenshirts in Paris ; here andin Leghorn you pay twoand a half. In Mar-seilles you pay forty dol-lars for a first-class dresscoat made by a goodtailor, but in Leghornyou can get a full dresssuit for the same you get handsomebusiness suits at fromten to twenty dollars,and in Leghorn you canget an overcoat forfifteen dollars that would cost you seventy in l^ew York. Fine kid boots are wortheight dollars in Marseilles and four dollars here. Lyons vel^vets rank higher in America than those of Genoa. Yet thebulk of Lyons velvets you buy in the States are made inGenoa and imported into Lyons, where they receive the Lyonsstamp and are then exported to America. You can buyenough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a fivehundred dollar cloak in ITew York—so the ladies tell course these things bring me back, by a natural and easytransition, to the. 320 ISLAND OF CAPRI. ASCENT OF VESUVIUS—CONTINUED. And thus the wonderful Blue Grotto is suggested to me. Itis situated on the Island of Capri, twenty-two miles from
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