Excerpt from Two Hundred and Nine Days, or the Journal of a Traveller on the Continent, Vol. 2 of 2 A person is apt to imagine, that when he enters Rome for the first time, he is to have his head full of Romulus and Remus, of J ulius Cazesar and the Grac chi; this perhaps would be the case, if mankind would let one another alone; but as they have never done so, and I fear never will, it is not easy to think much of the Gracchi, of their mother Cornelia, or of any thing else. At the gate began the inquiries about passports; we were next taken to the custom-house, where we were detained a long time, and every thing was pulled about with much rudeness and incivility; my books were taken away, and I was told to come for them the next morning. I found all the hotels full, but I suc ceeded at last in obtaining apartments in the Piazza di Spagua. It was now dark, and I might as well have been in London, except that I should be more com fortable there; however, at last, I am in Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.