New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-18

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TrvoLr April 1873.
TINS morning, for once at least, | was up be-
t,,e the sun a gentleman who formerly held an
continent under our Government and finally
married. a wealthy English lady and spent his
,;me IN travelling, promised to call and take me
!, his carriage with him and his lady to Tivoli.
of course was sure not to keep them waiting,
Int was up betimes and by means of it | made a
,euarkabIe discovery which give for the exclu-
are fit Of New Workers.
Morning after morning | had been awakened
Nv shril signal whistle under my windows, and
vhst it could mean at that early hour would al
ravs puzzle me till | fell asleep again. This
morning as opened the windows and stepped out
upon the balcony (and by the way windows are
never made to raise In this country but to open
ike double door, ! was greeted by this same
.hrili whistle ringing directly beneath me.
looked down and 10 it was the mix mans cry.
boy had driven to the door six or seven goats.
sad with his fingers in his mouth was whsthng
olt the servant Ina few moments she appeared
uithher pint cup which he took and stepping be-
hind the goats milked full, received his penny and
drove on Under a palace directly opposite l
eau three COWS standing in the same way, the
bov who drove them whistling away till the ser
r,nt anpeared, when he MIXED his measure full,
and then passed on toward the Corso-the an
cient via Flaminia This plan, you perceive, IN
,,oduced into New Yorl, would ctfectually pre-
vent ,catering the milk; and give It always
fresh and pure from the fountain head.
In few minutes the carriage drove up,
and under as bright d sky as ever bent over
the Caesars we ratified out of the city. We
osssed San Lorenzo gate, and trottcd along
The Via Tiburtina,' crossed the Alllo, and
finally fetched up by the monument of /" Giula
SIENNA, | will not dcscribs ii. At length the
watson either side of the ay,bull entirely OF petr-
factions, reminded us that we were III the vlcnl-
ity of Lake Tartarus, '' Lago d Tarlaro," the
petrlying qualities of whose waters furnish the
stone called ,ravertife. Its sulphur stencil was
Tartarian enough, and at length 1t sparkled Oh
our sight, mere pond, in the midst of large
field. Petriiying its own borders, 1t has contract
ed its limits till it bids fair to Peh7ty 'tSeg to
death and become a stone lake. The rocks
around it arc all formed from moss and turf and
masses of cane, whose tubes still remain IN the
stone Remembering certain brother oil NINE
who has a perfect mania for odd specimens Of
this sort, and who had never failed III every letter
TO insinuate in no ambiguous language that he
supposed | would "forget to pick up some old
stones' for him, loaded down the carriage with
fragments of rock to my particular discomfort.
Leaving this we came to the Soltatara (sul-
phur) canal The odor from this stream, which
drains the ancient Aqua Albulae, was still
stronger than from Tartarus. This canal is mne
feet broad two feet deep, and two miles long, and
the water that flows rapidly in 1t Is almost OF the
color Of milk. The Aqua Albulae is about
mile distant, and by It's petrifying qualities has
contracted itself from a mile in circumference
to500 feet Near by are the Baths OF AgnPpa,
patronised by Augustus and enlarged by Queen
Zenobia, who was permitted to retire to IL
yoi with her children, after she had graced the
trumphal entry Of the ravager of Palmyra INTO
Rome.
A little distance from the road stands the RUNS
of Adrian's yilla-the most picturesque and lm-
posing of any in Italy; They surpass those OF
the Palace of the C,esars This villa was over
thrown during the siege of Thur by Totila. |
will not describe to you the old Greek Theatre
with its ruined Procenium nor the beautiful
Nymphaeum; nor the Pecile, 600 feet long, with
its double row OF columns still standing, nor the
imperial Palace, nor the old barracks of the fre-
torian guards-nor the Crane Serapeonoi OF Cano-
pus, nor the beautiful VALE of TEMPE-nor the
promenades of the poets and philosophers who
rsed to loiter in their green shades. will leave
you in ignorance of them all. You cannot aP-
preciate them unless you wander in proprla per-
soma" amid their haunted shades, with the dark
cypress waving above you and the splrlt oi 'he
Fast whispering Ill your car.
Amid these runs were found all the Egyptian
antiquities in the Roman Captol-the beautliu'
Mosaic OF Pliny's Doves; and the Venus dl Me
dici. The road from hence up to Tlyo (the an
Gent THUR is through the most venerable olive
grove have ever seen. Between It's dark To-
lage YOU get glimpse now and then of the no
man Campagna, stretching on toward the sea-
toward the eternal ci,y-and the Sabine Hills
should like to run on awhile about this ancient
Thur ,hroned on its beautiful hill. Horace was
accustomed to spend much of his time here, and
wrote enthusiastically of It's beauty. Not the
broad Lacedemon, said he, nor the rich fields o
Larissa strike me so much
Guam domus Albuns;e resonantis
Et precep5 Anio ;et Tiburni ucus ct uds
Mobi!ibus pomara Tiris
Here he would sit and compose his verses, ant
prayed that ii might be the retreat oil his old age
But truce to Horace. | like hum not and neve