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August 12 Monday – From Sam’s notebook:
“Passed through Straits of Messina between Southern Italy & Sicily—2 miles wide in narrowest places. Passed close to city of Messina—mass of gas lights” [MTNJ 1: 384].

Entry Date
Links to Twain's Geography Entries
Innocents Abroad: Day By Day
Innocents in Italy - Day By Day
Innocents in Greece - Day By Day
DBD: The Quaker City Voyage

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.