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I hope Mr Biddle wont suffer by it—  
Pisa - Hotel Washington - A very [[modest?]]-inn but we are trying to make up for our expenses in Siena which were heavy.  But it paid there.  The inside of the Cathedral matched the outside and was beyond any thing we have seen for richness except San Marco.  

There is nothing in Florence to compare to it. The beautiful old waxy carved marbles - carved and carved and carved low relief and high relief - mosaic - and bronze - richness upon richness - and The Biblioteca lined with frescos designed by Raphael and painted by Pinturiccio [[Pinturicchio]] and looking as if they were done yesterday.  The Sacristan turned over the leaves of one of the huge parchment illuminatia music books - Of which there are I dont know how many hundred.

We took a drive in a fancy little sort of high narrow open cab - with a firey little black horse with a long feather standing straight up on top of his head and a young [[----ious?]] for a driver

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Centurion maybe?