Excerpt from The Journal of Montaigne's Travels in Italy by Way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Vol. 3 of 3
Warning by firing a gun to the tower next to him. SO rapidly is intelligence sped by this method that it has been found that word may be passed from the extreme point of Italy to Venice in an hour.
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