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Title: Samuel F.B. Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 Morse, Edward Lind, 1857-
Subjects: Telegraph
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o, but in allthings else the Lake of Como must claim the precedence.The palaces and villas and villages which skirt its shores,the mountains, vine-clad and cultivated to their sum-mits, all give a charm for which we look in vain as yet inour country. The luxuries of art have combined withthose of nature in a wonderful degree in this enchantingspot. On August 4, they left Milan in the diligence for LagoMaggiore, and we learn that: Our coach is accom-panied by gendarmes. We enquired the reason of theconductor, who was in the coach with us. He told usthat the road is an unsafe one; that every day there areinstances of robbery perpetrated upon those who travelalone. It would be pleasant to follow the travellers throughbeautiful Maggiore and up the rugged passes from Italyto Switzerland and thence to Germany and Paris, andto see through the unspoiled eyes of an enthusiast thebeauties of that playground of the nations, but it wouldbe but the repetition of an oft-told tale, and I must hasten
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HEXRV CLAYPainted by Morse. Now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York THE RIGI 401 on, making but a few extracts from the diary. No thrill-ing adventures were met with, except towards the end,but they enjoyed to the full the grand scenery, the pic-turesque costumes of the peasants and the curious cus-toms of the different countries through which theypassed. The weather was sometimes fine, but more oftenovercast or rainy, and we find this note on August 15:How much do a travellers impressions depend uponthe weather, and even on the time of day in which hesees objects. He sees most of the country through whichhe travels but once, and it is the face which any pointassumes at that one moment which is brought to hisrecollection. If it is under a gloomy atmosphere, it isnot possible that he should remember it under otherform or aspect. On Sunday, August 28, he watched the sunrise fromthe summit of the Rigi under ideal conditions, and, afterdescribing the scene and saying that the rest of the

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