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    { JQtJ ^ I ; wjto fcit ^ iateinhaving for one of my companions in the vokure aftijEngli ^ hi ^ iUeraQn ^ ^ vho 4 ad precisely the same object Sn ^ iew that I hkfar&imlyf to ^ see Kaples and its environs in the course of a week or ten dajifc t > ) W % M © fc lodgings together in the Strada Vittoria ; and here we are * iirthebest quarter of the town , dose upon the sea-shore , and with the far * facaed ^ bay stretched out before us . This morning the weather was so excessively wet that we could not think of venturing into the country ; but

    we found ample amusement in the Museo Borbonico ^ where we went through the whole collection of ancient statues , Greek , Roman , and Egyptian , many of them of first-rate excellence , and in beautiful preservation . There is here also a collection of fresco paintings brought from Pompeii . It is astonishing that these should have been preserved so well during one thousand eight hundred years : in point of execution the drawing is much better than the colouring . The ancient Greeks and Romans appear

    not to have understood the mixing of colours , and to have had a very imperfect knowledge of perspective . Some of these paintings were the signs which had been placed over the doors of shops : there was one , in particular , which could not be mistaken , for it represents a man measuring another for a pair of shoes . In the afternoon the weather cleared , and we had a beautiful view of the

    bay , with the villages of white houses scattered along its coast to the north ,, the bold promontory of Sorrento and the island of Capri closing it in to the south-east , and the green shore of Posilipo bounding it to the west . But Vesuvius was very ungracious : he remained wrapped up in a thick veil of white clouds , as if he thought that he had of late done quite enough to astonish the world without displaying his glories on every-day occasions .

    11 th . My friend and I took a carriage to visit the Grotto del Can $ 9 the lake Avernus , and several other dbjects of curiosity , which lie to the westward of the town ; but of these some are too well known to require description , and / with others I must confess that I was disappointed : I shall therefore onrit the particulars . The next day we were much better employed than in examining broken walls , and groping into Sybils' caves , for we ascended Vesuvius . Landing at Portici , we hired a couple of asses to carry us up the mountain , as far as

    the bottom of the cone , which is much too steep for these animals to ascend . TKc ! Jbttfer part of the mountain is beautifully fertile ; it is planted wifli abjrt ' ciot aind mulberry , trees , and with vines , which produce the wine called Ldbl&jfrnla Christi . After we had passed this blooming region , we entered on another of a very different character ; for the whole surface of the grourid was thickly overlaid with strata of lava and with scoriae , those which

    had beett produced b y the different eruptions of 1767 1810 , 1817 , and 15 ^ 2 , ' be ^ ng very dfetin ^ This was a black and a blasted tract ; , without srbla . de of ye&etation , ppon it . | s we viewed it from the eminence , on vi / hicfi 'the Hermitage stands ! it looked as if the " burning marie" of Mutoirs uifernal regions had been , brpught up to the surface of the eartp , ai | fl coql ^ d ^ nd ' bla ' clenetf | i y exposure , to tlie air . - It , took us nearly two hoilrs t ^ rea ch the bbtibrti or the conei and more than hatf an hour more to Mm tc ^^' s ^ f t ; ^ K ^ H'Mer ^ aVt of the ascent , " thougn extremely sWep ,-and rendered still more difficult by the loose nature of the ashes or scoriae over which the path lies , I effected with but little fatigue , as I * - { M ^ I ^ . # PW y . P £ myogwde * ,,, VVhen wq ^ mved at tl ) e top

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 832, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/32/