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I ever saw. I did not collect anything but this little dry festuca 
which takes up noroom. 1 oould not resist entering a little 
marble shop near the campanile. They have all sorts of lovely vases 
and "boxes, as well as numberless statuettes and models of the cam- 
panile. After having determined to huy nothing more in Europe I 
came out w&th two lit le vases and two iie howls for flowers. They 
will he heavy to, carry, hut they are so lovely, I have to turn now 
evory few minutes and look at them. These people have taste, There ♦ 
was very little that was ornate or tawdry , as most of the things in 
Florence were. Pisa is the center of the marhle industry. The city 
•vorks for its living, it is not a saprophyte living on tho dead like 
Florence. The vases, including the luxua tax, were about ,;5. I 
-This afternoon 
■later. — I 
shall keep one and use the others for gifts. 
I have been putting Hex species on those blanks I brought for use if 
needed. It takes too long to hunt lies up in the pahlioatione, even 
though I have pages marked. 1 guess I told you I got several of 
os types in Munich. I fear I shall never again be able to laugh 
at your system of numbering , for mine is getting exceedingly com- 
plex. I numbered all ahead. But like nomenclatorial rules there 
are always cases unprovided for. (There is a mosquito bothering me. 
I am all lumps from last night's mosquitoes. ) 
went out for a walk along the river to get warmed up and then had 
dim r. Dinner is a slow proceas in Italy. Coming back from my 
walk I saw on the other side a sort of built-up arm of the river 
and an enormous wheel up under an arch spanning it. I found a slab 
that said something about its being erected by Ferdinand 3rd duke— 
"ducis tertla"— for the merchants of Pisa. Its Soman numerals were 
not like ours but I made it out as 1603. It was a slip for ships 
to unload and the big wheel is an ancient derrick. There are series 
of steps running down beside the wall to the water's edge. It gave 
