CHARLES WATERT0N, ESQ. lix 



so plentiful as they are with us. They must 

 have been scarce in the time of Horace, for he 

 remarks of Canidia, 6 crines et incomptum 

 caput."' 



I am never prone to find fault with the 

 modes and customs of those countries through 

 which I travel ; always bearing in mind, that if 

 we here in England have the supposed com- 

 forts of life in a superior style, we pay in a 

 superior manner for them. However, I do 

 think in one instance, that the Italians would 

 confer a vast benefit on society, if they would 

 depose more fertilising matter in their fields, 

 and less in their streets ; or, in case the first is 

 not considered necessary, they might imitate 

 the excellent example of the good people of 

 Edinburgh in the olden time, when they had a 

 man clothed in an ample surtout, crying up 

 and down the streets at night, " Wha wants 

 me ? " At a distance, the appearance of the 

 Italian towns and villages, surrounded by olive 

 groves and cypress trees, is perfectly enchant- 

 ing; but on a near approach to them, every 

 favourable idea vanishes at once, and the tra-^ 

 veller cannot walk the streets with comfort, 

 unless he has his lavender-water with him. 



