Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-01-22
Correspondence Of the Free Press.
LETTERS FROM EUROPE,
Maple, 10 Ilortnce .-7hs Bay Of Naples.
Ef1prN,r
no. XXXNItI.

After few hours drive about the shops Of
Naples to look at the beautiful fabrics Of Ne
poli,an art, in lava and jcwelry, terra Gotta
statlary and charming little szetehea IN oil
colors, and laying in what little purchases we
chose 70 make as momontos Of tho city, We .
determined to leave Naples and set our faces to |
the north, by the steamer to sail in the after.
nom.
We had looked at the Bay from our hotel |
from the rear of the city-from tho low
level of the Mergellina-and the bllGs Of Po- |
silppo-all along from the city to Pompoii,
and from the arid slopes Of Voeuvius, and we
did not regret having reserved our pan ramic
Look at the surrounding shores from the wd-
ter, till we should survey them from our
steamer as we should pass out on our way home
for when we double Cape Miseno, We shall
have reached our most southcrly point, and
shall hcnccforward be continually barring to
the northwdrd and westward, md nearer AMI
nearer to that home from which W. have
hitherto been departing from day u day,
Early in the aftern1yn-1ur carly lunch
fnished-our bill paid-and or d)uceurs all
bo.towed-wo took our carriage to DEPART,
with polite and oGlcti)nNte bow from the
Cd Porter, and passing by the Royal Palace
and the Cast.l Nuovo. W, were SIT down on
the mol) grand, (great wharf at a suitable
distance from which lay the BosPherc, in
which We were u embark and take our last
l1jk at Naples After more multifari1us and
Troublesome forms and cxact9ns than | had
encountered anywher, clsc-5eiug call ii back
overall tmcs--we We're set on board the
steamer in a small boat, and were soon un-
dir-way down through the Bay, = take
panoramic view of whose beauties, we kept on
desk The afternoon was as clear and trans
plrant as we have ever seen it in Italv-tAc
water was CLASSY and mirror-liko as far us the
eve could reach, and as we looked back the
tromul,us shadows Of the City, the Castle del
| \ JvJ and Ncsuvius, ref ,cted in the bay. s,em-
ed to darkcn the green water, and As We
s'iirt2d al)ng thu M.rg 'llinl, down toward
Media, and passed that small tpw1r-lik, is-
| md, its sides and the bluff shores Of P1siliI-
p) and the villa Of Lucullus, close on our
r sht, are painted almost as sharply and tru-
| ly in their shadows in the wave as in thlii
reality in the upper air. All the various and
beautiful shore on the left from the Chiaia
and the Villa rae all the way round u Cape
| Cdr.nd was in full vicw-tve-and-twenty
mile.-tAking in the smoking summit and
the slopes of Vesuvius quite down to the Bay
-Portici--ResinI--rOr del Greco-Turre del
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Sorrento and
the mountains beyond, and Capri, with their
bays and their promontaries and their settle
ments and villas, while in the low and fAr-of
horizon, directly in our path, lay Procida and
Is:hia, becoming moro and NOR, Distinct in
the agreeable hazo which lies upon an Italia
horizon and into which wo seemed to be
q lating, except while we daviatsd from our
course to pass mora closoly Polluoli and
BAie and other interesting objects on the
western shores Of the Bay Of Poz,uoli, omerg
ing from which we dubbed Cape Misou),
ran through the strait Of Procida and were
now outside Of the islands and on the open
SEA, and we made our parting bow to Naples
Naples, older than Rom2, called by HJr-
ace oHoSa Neap0ts-9y uvra IN o'Ig 7tasam
PGc!h nopn-n all ay2s the a51lo Of r3pos-
and pleasure, has been along through the
ages illustrious as the birthplace Of many
eminent men, and the residence Of many
9th RS Cicero and S-naca both characterize
it rs the mother Of s;Idis-Nirgi ind sem
eca and BJccaco and Plrtnus and NurrJ
and Die and PJrta and CJl5nna and FJatI-
mia made it their home. pltercuus the
historan-Statius tie Epic, Majus the phi.
lJl).ist, SlnnasIr the poet, B)rilli tn
mathematician, Grlvinl the iurisc insult
Salvador Rosa the painter, B.rnini the arcli.
t,ct, Perg Jlcsls the great musical composer
at the age when others g to school, VIII
died at the age Of % as he finished the last
v,rs, Of tho statat mater, his mlst:r-p. c.
these were all natives of this voluptuous and
idle city 50 much more their gl1.y that thei
resisted the temptations Of the charms Of The
sirens that cLant.d their choruses and
spread their beauties all abroad on the
shores and islands of that magnificent Bay.
asr .aowl3l for its nl,arIl bMlty tholslal'
Of years az a. now, with the pltriciln and
imroral villAs-thcn in all their perfection,
now hardly discoverable ruine-thc loft!
temples of sensual, yet intellectual hcathu-
ism and the luxurious and voluptuous water
Ing places, looking out from the shores uIon
the quiet waters of that almost handbook d
basin, described in miniature by Virgil as
tho Lybian Port where Aeneas entered with
bis shattered dat
Est in rece,su lonJo locus, &c.