be formed of the glittering of b to ascending and descending should have and he could have it we came from the fall by a lovely winding through tall chestnut bursting into fresh and shrubs heath and sweet and cherry and through the orange of a certain count ah my dear c this is and the girls who met us with whereon we were to ascend the hill to were as beautiful as would have painted wood owes a portion of its fame to this atmosphere of exceeding beauty � the day has been warm and towards noon we crossed la a high peak of the we had a yoke of oxen attached to our four horses to drag us up this three mile ascent k and i walked the greater part of the way and amused ourselves talking with the train of that we accumulated not and lame and blind but stout and pretty children the oxen pulled the taking care to let them do all the work till when we were within a few yards of the summit one of them suddenly stopped and staggered th r master detached them when the poor beast gave a leap and fell dead his owner broke out into the most violent expressions of despair beating his breast clasping his hands off his hat and throwing himself on the ground do not laugh at la me � v truly he me of s over tbe dead body of there could in no case be more of grief our b forgot and gathered him ex their sympathy most while be continued touching the animal s horns and crying out o o io drawing open one and then the other and exclaiming m � to k i this was all unaffected the oxen were probably tbe � ly means of living the poor man � his for bread for himself and his but he showed all he felt they are a people do you remember a story mr of one of our who having left hi wife and children alone in their log habitation to go into the forest found them all � on coming back lying murdered before his door by indians he made no movement no but said quietly well now if this if not too ridiculous la � after crawling to day at a s pace up the immense hill on which the old city stands we were induced to our way by the report of the recent opening of a it it � � bat that � afterward he the of old age la tomb in some of the of this old have sl t for the last years descending the bill in a uttle post carriage and a field we descended a ladder and a doubly locked door b� ng opened to us we entered the tomb of a noble family opposite our entrance hung suspended a bronze in little there are nine small chambers built of square blocks of with a well cut s head in die centre of each ceiling and about it and i think but our survey waa so hasty that i do not for its accuracy one apartment only is left as it was found from the rest the � and ornaments have been removed in this are several of as white as marble and as perfect in all re as when they came the � s hands there was a figure on each to be the of the person whose remains within the a portrait gallery to be opened to after years is it not everything is as fresh and as the laid th dead here the tomb ot the is a to this we had only time for a strange bewildering none to go into a palace ban to � some very � found in the tomb and removed there foe safe keeping and which we told as are on like were better worth seeing than all the rest we are this evening at an inn m a straggling vol a a s la half way up a steep hill where fancy no travelling ever stopped before any rooms with an invalid are better than none and our threatened us th the probability of sleeping in our carriage if we proceeded to the stopping place so here we are in the midst of an italian rustic all serving us all curious and good humoured have been borrowed from a luxurious neighbour a as sent a mile and a half to bring milk for us and our thoughtful provided butter at so you see how extremes meet an isolated western in a like would have had recourse to like but i wonder if ever but in this land where grace and beauty are native to the there was so pretty a rustic as is at this moment with the help of two arranging our beds i can scarce write for looking at her and from that i believe we all feel she returns my glance and a smile into the bargain she is not an italian beauty there is no brilliancy of colouring j but such perfect and such a appealing touching expression she over the floor as a bird over the surface of the water i never saw motion so light and full of grace � it would make die fortune of an of pastoral comedy i must ask her name and of her history her name is and for her she has none she says her father is dead � eveiy one s dies sooner or later her mother is very ta poor neither is that any distinction here and she her bread with these good people of the inn you have never to america no she lied infinite simplicity nor to she would like to go to said her friend ah you have a lover there said l no no i will be a i looked at ha gay coloured 