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Title: Samuel F.B. Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 Morse, Edward Lind, 1857-
Subjects: Telegraph
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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al CharlesFelix, King of Sardinia. It took them many days toclimb up and down the rugged road over the mountains,while now the traveller is whisked under and aroundthe same mountains in a few hours. At eleven we had attained a height of at leasttwo thousand feet and the precipices became frightful,sweeping down into long ravines to the very edge of thesea; and then the road would wind at the edge of theprecipice two or three thousand feet deep. Such scenespass so rapidly it is impossible to make note of them. From the heights on which La Turbia stands, withits dilapidated walls, we see the beautiful city of Mon-aco, on a tongue of land extending into the sea. The great gambling establishment of Monte Carlodid not invade this beautiful spot until many yearslater, in 1856. The travellers stopped for a few hours at Mentone,—a beautiful place for an artist, — passed the nightat San Remo, and, sauntering thus leisurely along thebeautiful Riviera, arrived in Genoa on the 6th ofFebruary.
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JEREMIAH EVARTS From a portrait painted by Morse owned by Sherman Evarts, Esq. CHAPTER XVI FEBRUARY 6, 1830 — JUNE 15, 1830 Serra Palace in Genoa. — Starts for Rome. — Rain in the mountains. — Abrigand. — Carrara. — First mention of a railroad. — Pisa. — The leaningtower. — Rome at last. — Begins copying at once. — Notebooks. — Cere-monies at the Vatican. — Pope Pius VIII. — Academy of St. Lukes. — St.Peters. — Chiesa Nuova. — Painting at the Vatican. — Beggar monks. —Festa of the Annunciation. — Soiree at Palazzo Simbaldi. — Passion Sunday.— Horace Vernet. — Lying in state of a cardinal. — Miserere at SistineChapel. — Holy Thursday at St. Peters. — Third cardinal dies. — MeetsThorwaldsen at Signor Persianiss. — Manners of English, French, andAmericans. — Landis pictures. — Funeral of a young girl. — Trip to Tivoli,Subiaco. — Procession of the Corpus Domini. — Disagreeable experience. The enthusiastic artist was now in I

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