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the inclemency of the season to accomplish, with any comfort, Northern Italy, as we had intended & returned therefore from Florence by way of Pisa, Spetzia, Genoa, [indecipherable] & [indecipherable] where the snow was in places from 20 to 30in [indecipherable] deep - glad enough were we to find at [indecipherable], after 13 hours [indecipherable].  At Geneva, which I have always loved, we spent several days in a very comfortable hotel on the banks of the lovely lake.  Then went on to Paris, where we staid some time - I may [indecipherable] this small epitome of our [indecipherable]  by saying that after all we found Paris, as a City, [indecipherable] in our opinion to any of the [indecipherable] famed places on the other side of the Alps -
The last Australian mail, bought us the Sydney Illustrated news, directed by you - we are much pleased to have it, containing, as it does, in a concise shape, a [indecipherable] history of yr public life in the Colony. [indecipherable]

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