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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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it increased its range of business, and of its wide-spread connection with other great commercial institutions. The Levant, and the westcoast of the Black Sea, the lower Danube and the Po, have now regular communicationwith Trieste. The original capital, which amounted but to a million and a half, hadincreased tenfold in 1870 ; the number of steamers was close upon seventy, and thematerial used for heating their engines alone, cost over two millions of gulden per annum.To understand these facts one must be acquainted with the particulars of the service—onemust consider that in the course of a single year, more than one million one hundred and 8o ITALY. eighteen thousand miles were traversed, more than three hundred thousand passengersconveyed, and that the goods transport reached nearly to six million centners (hundred-weight). Avanti is the proud device of the company, and with good right is it borne.The Tergesteum strikes us with a sense of the active intelligence and brain-power
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GROTTO OF SAN SERVOLO NEAR TRIESTE. which guides the undertaking. But in the Arsenal of Lloyds—completed in 1857, andvalued at four million nine hundred thousand gulden—we see, in the thousands of busyhands at work there, the evidences of external and physical force. One thing more—whence comes the singular name of the company ? What is meant by that word Lloyd ? It is not known to every one that Mr. Lloyd was originally the keeper ofthe Exchange Coffee-house in London, where brokers and agents were in the habit of TO TRIESTE AND MIRAMAR. 81 meeting together to discuss business and strike bargains. As early as the beginning ofthe eighteenth century, the place passed into the hands of a commercial company, whichused it as a regular place of meeting, and soon had representatives in all parts of the

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