The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-07-14
summer Tour in Europe.


Rome and reaches Naples in four days.
At Genoa, - counting time from an early
date in the old countries, they seem to
/ have plenty of 1.-THE earlier party
had near a day on shore, and here re-
ceiycd their first impressions of the grace
lul architecture and genial skies Of It.
ally For the 6rst time they made their
lunch under the shade of orange trees
hum with fruit, and confessed charm in
the atmosphere, awaking jealousy for the
home they had left. I'VE shall see" said
the;, "no such land as our own."-At
Leghorn the following day, lying equally
quiet and kept aboard the steamer by .
rain. they stole an hour or two from sea
Sickness for letter-writng, and entered the
! Bay Of Naples on the 10th.--Tbree days
afterwards rain was OBTAINING them from
pr ected excursion to Mount Vesuvius.
! Then party enlarged at Paris by the ad-
ditiyl of a Virginia family, were busying
themselves in their parlor, some with
specimens of coral they were examining,
some with letters, which again there was
time write, when young geutleman,Ons
of the most familiar of their neighbers at
home, -tood quietly among them, as un-
annoaoced aud unexpected as if from uu-
der she'll! Leaving home week later
and having less rapid passage than
themselves, he had landed at Southamp-
! ton obtained his passport at the Amsri-
can Embassy in London, crossed to Paris
by Foikstone and Bologne, by cars and
steamboat, in eleven hours, and arrived
on the evening of the fifth. Giving two
days to the capital, he took an evening
train for Marseiles, and having pleasant
glimp4es Of fhe country below Lyons.
reached hs hotel in season for good din
ncr on Saturday afternoon, and learning
his friends had passed, booked himself for
the steamer Of Monday morning.
AJ Naples on a festival day, all giving
themselves to its enjoyment, the number
of beggas is not so disproportionats.
Palaces and churches seem to have left
som, t4iug OF people which is clean. Po-
liticaily it is the paradise of dsspotism,
morally perhaps of superstition, yet ..
mon-.t is half million of population
are tte cultivated and elegant, the indus
trious, why not the virtuous. 1t is not
and has never been, it is said, pursl ly a
hon 0gcneous race. 1t wants that beauty
Of development which comes by the culti-
walton of "a race in civilization, by which
It's b,s. forces may predominate, and put
forth those graces which constitute 81 high
an allmcmcut 10 the traveller. A mixed
community, it has beeu subjected to vari-
GU. imported dynasties, whom it destroyed
by ef.minacy. is the chimney
of more intense fire. The Bay of Ma
pies reflects The beauty of the atmosphere
i change and variety of colors, that
rive TO sen water the Charm Of ssnsu-
Gus enjoyment. 1t is beside expanded in
extent definite and unique in figure, .
mirror ior the sharp and picturesque
shores, for islands doubled beneath its
surface, for the mountain with its signal
of lie, for fortresses in its bosom and the
city at ito border The position Of the
strangers was in the new portion Of the
city along the quay, at the rear of that
rich exclusive promenade, the most attrac-
tive in Europe, which the genius OF the
place would seem to have inspired, and
placed where the least Of regret would in
tCrmihgle with the spirit of the scene
" See Naples and die lis an spigram-
matt rather than an evangelical proverb
doubtless, but to see the magic colors Of
the surface, the far.drawn but graphic 6g-
ure Of its bay, to pay your court at the
bathd Of Bai@, where ancient luxury
tempered the heats of the South with
shades Of marble, aud mixed the wine of
life with snow above the fires of Avsrnus,
to study its remembrances at their grave
and read the epitaph of pleasure in moss
and ivy, certainly If it be temptation Of
passion Is a preparation Of thought
Tno excursion to Vosuyius il described
as a merry one. The toilsoms labor Of
the ascent was forgotten for its novelty,
not to say its Italian absurdity. From
tho hermitage which is reached by car.
riage, ten miles from Naples on a fns
road, ponies are taken. which hurryins
over fragments Of rock in single file, be.
sidos their riders, are taxed with towing
up a corps of lazzaroni. for the next emer,
gency by the tail, When the steep cone
is reached ponies are left, and each adven
turer, with leathern strap for belt i,
pulled and pushed up by the lazaroni. Il
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