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their other riches. We laid in a stock of rosaries 
and crucifixes of various kinds, which are made at 
Loretto, and which we had touched with the holy 
house and porringer, to make them (as Lady Miller 
says) as efficacious as possible, to present as curi- 
osities to our friendsin England. Their cheapness 
is as remarkable as any thing, and some of them 
are really very pretty things; as you shall see, I 
hope, one day. We were obliged to buy a little 
silver Madonna, and some flaring artificial flowers 
to stick in the front of our voiturin’s hat; that was 
indispensably necessary, and if it had been neg- 
lected, nobody knows what ills might have befallen 
us. Next day we proceeded amid troops of pil- 
grims to Ancona, a pretty sea-port, and thence to 
Sinigaglia. We saw nothing very remarkable all 
the way to Bologna, but passed through some very 
pretty neat little cities, viz. Rimini (which last 
week felt another shock of an earthquake), Forlt, 
Faenza, Imola, and Cesene. Most of the towns in 
this country are built like Bologna, of brick; the 
houses stand on stone pillars, and form a clean 
broad covered way for foot-passengers on each side 
of most of the streets, which is very convenient. 
We have been busy since our arrival here, in seeing 
churches and pictures, with which this place abounds ; 
some of the latter prodigiously fine: butnochurches 
will do after seeing Rome. Tomorrow evening we 
set off ina barge, to go by canals and rivers to 
Venice, where we are to arrive in thirty-six hours, 
and where we expect to meet several of our friends. 
We shall probably stay ten days, or at most a fort- 
