at. 70.] TO MESSRS. CANBY AND REDFIELD. 723 
TO MESSRS. CANBY AND REDFIELD. 
Kew, July 15, 1881. 
My DEAR OLD FRIENDS, CANBY AND REDFIELD, — 
How very long it is since you have heard, at least 
directly, from your Old World wanderers! How long 
and from whence, is more than I can tell. I use now 
an enforced half hour before an engagement, and 
when it is, would you believe it for England? too hot 
to go across the Green to use the half hour at the 
herbarium, where I have sweltered all the morning, 
regular Philadelphia heat, and this is the third day of 
this the second heated term. 
I wrote you from Italy, I think. 
. . . It is hopeless now to try to give any narration 
of our doings. The flavor would have all evaporated 
in the attempt to recall and review the past spring. 
I think you know our routes, from Paris in March 
to Turin, to Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Naples, and the 
country around, Amalfi and Pestum our most south- 
ern points ; then Rome again and a twelve days’ stay, 
then a run to Orvieto and Cortona on the route to 
Florence, a visit to Siena from Florence, a detour 
from Bologna to Ravenna, most old-world of towns, 
thence to Venice, a week only. And as we left it, the 
Hookers, whose furlough was running out, dropped 
us at Padua, whence, passing Verona, where we had 
been before, we had a day at Brescia, thence to Milan, 
Como and up the lake, and over to Lugano, and back 
to Milan. Thence to Arona at foot of Lake Mag- 
giore, and a drive all the way up to Domo d’ Ossola, 
and then diligence over the Simplon pass and through 
the snow, and down to Brieg, and on to Martigny 
to sleep, and then on to Geneva, where we passed a 
