PROCEEDINGS 



OF THK . , . 



Delaware County Institute of Science 



Vol. IV, No. 2 . January, 1909 



FLORKNCE. 



RY J.\COB n. BROWN, -i^ 



I have taken in hand to oive you some impressions of 

 Florence that have remained with me. For I am not one who 

 has visited the place merely — I have lived there. My object 

 is, as I think you will see, to avoid the book of travel style ; 

 tonchino rather upon such matters as residents only are apt to 

 become acquainted with. 



Be pleased not to expect accurate statistics or clean cut 

 statements. Any one can get the figures he may desire or 

 require — names, dates, heights, distances and cold facts of 

 that kind — from sources which are within easy reach. If I 

 must tell you the truth, I rather absorbed the place than 

 studied it, during the years of my living there. 



Beginning, therefore, with what comes uppermost, it was 

 my fortune, my not unmixedly evil fortune, to pass a summer 

 in the city, instead of lleeing to the cooler country, as foreign 

 residents do almost of course ; and so with my own eyes I 

 saw, among other things, what any one at all conversant with 

 the matter might have told me, that the true Florentine who 

 is wealthy enough to do as he likes does not go to his vil/coia- 

 tum, or season of country residence, in the summer time, but 

 in the Spring and Fall. The fact is, as I understand it, that 

 he really can keep cooler and more comfortable in his city 



"Deceased. 



