, 1860-07-07

II
,HB U@ors Of the abort roads rciA phase ad-
pss " scAea changes in this table are ntctssasy.
PICTURE OF ROME.
ri MES. HARRIET nkKcHEn STOWE.
have been now many weeks in this sad
old citJ-sad, somber it must always be-
With its moldering r1lins-its wide surrounding
Campagna-and its psrktyed, poetic 1coklpg
people, whom ercn dirt mud rags cannot make
vulgar or common place. I welt TO the top Of
tho Capitol the other morning, It was a cl5ar,
lively day, aud us We stood in the little stons
balcony Of tho crowning tower, the custode
counted out to us tho seven hills Of Rome
now scarcely to be distinguished, covered
with buildings. We saw how the old <ity
gantic ;ntaut, in circle Of surrounding noun
Iains, which, rising now in snowy, silvery
clearness, seemed to cut the blue horizon all
around.
In the spring Of the rear, the snow upon
these mountains gives them, through the pur-
pie vail Of Italian air, all the picturesque and
dreamy grace Of Alpine peaks. Their outlincs
are, msny Of them, peculiarly bold and gr1ce-
full; and one looks On them with interest be-
cause they are features Of the landscape that
could not have changed. Such as they.are to
us this morning, such they looked to Cicero
aud Virgil and to Crsar-to thousands Of
eyes now shut forever.
One thing strikes one in @ panorama Of
Rome-the deficiency in trees. As one stands
Tn the top Of the capitol, nothing like foliage
strikes the eye in that great circle Of country,
bounded by mountains and ccntered by Rome.
No groyos-1o forests-no tufts Of trees
oak, ash, poplar, and consequent variations Of
unduatiDg outline. There are but TWO trees
which mako much impression on onefs eyes in
the picture; and these are the cypress and
stone pine, and both have forms Of sucll stony
| definiteness Of outline, that call them archi-
tectural trees. They look as if they too might
| have been carved cut Of stoce, like the pyra-
mids, obelisks, and dones among which they
rise, black and still, with no sway Of lnaf or
spray, with no futter or wave Of bough,
quiet and lifeless, as il they belonged to that
enchanted city one reads Of in romance, where
everything WAS suddeHy turned to stone.
To me the sense Of an oppressive deadness,
heavy llfe!css stiffness, sccms to be the gen.
eral epirlt Of this landscape-as if some awful
doom, some spell Of sinister enchantmcnt,
! made the air pfeternatural}y hoary, as one
Eometlmes feels it before thunder Storm
From the Capitol one looks down at the bro
eeu eolanus u ,ae forum .aE oelo" al one
t a, uuo s.le eau,ess u' lsaln VI workmen o'eg'ne
barrows il slow line toward tho Coliseum,
seems sort Of spectral procession-so life-
lessiy they work, 50 slowly they move, their
ragged oil cloaks still thrown over their sIoul-
49, t:say saksH@Ja a." !" s4'e w m -Aol4an
oa us IeM,;n ~ .aoaaao"s aho.1a VI nonau :,7
-. Ao rN1, ueneo, p, p.eA'ne s"a'eSa'y
asa. 10 s'Aso VI ~ t'ome' Po~e:less aug anle
~ 81. s N!: 80 " ny sae'l ":;cs ano
s' 49, tn14o sues p'ea leeo5
49, 49, * ~ 49,, m...o s"o ola na!anaaueu PIepe-
ns 49, =, oia.:e o:e Aau: e9oo tIisn eluse III man5
10 .>ao.1a ~ H. - ~ ."eI ..:oanes ~
~ - ,,S A. g 60 ~. .'us ~. 4e!au 1saN
~ pe.aas . ~ sa,.,.- 49, 49,. s"e00 o'o sAo''s
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oc,na ~ ROVE ~ ~ wcndrnns .-s .,,.l
noss H., S,a,da-, r;e,,,a.. - tono .,s;a,. 81
nos1 racl,,,e;ia. 80 - the oe, - "net ~.
md ~ 1reen md ~ r. .hat ,.;r.o,;,',,s n,o.;nn
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acano %''' ''''s''''1 - -1'l'e'' '''4'@'
r.. ,,oo,,,;,- ,aaoaoo,,roa ,;o,,on r,:h;,,,
c,;nrs :, b,,;,dr.ss 80 o;rae r,aiar1 +ona -
ererr rooF md 70 a;r s,s;rrna-s ~ ho,,s
~ * Se.. ,;tt u',..a.:, ,;,.,,,a
soro, sboaor.s Eso- t a1>.1;sL - ~
crn,a.s snd +ho na.h.s1. 's;,enad stane ,,;ns
Iara t1a;- onaia.os,a. ns,aa.;a1s ~ om.n,a ire
1ar and III ~ ~: as y. -; ta.p, 49,
them With ioht nv daes mt <ron5ar,ha,
artists falj ;o ]ova VII - Ron,eN,ha mis-.
tress Of eualnntments- that they say 10
her, in dirt, in rags, in filth, in ignominy,
"Thou art my mistress. I would not change
thee for the cleanliest aud sweetest good house.
wife in tho world" Oae only wants to drop
humanity cut Of their calculation, to lire
merely in the artistic and picturesque, to feel
thus themselves, One feels The encl,antucnt
workior-the weird old srh;l tells nnon vou
But let us come down from onr airT perch
On the Capi,o'. and descend bodily into Tie Fo+
rum below, Fifteen Cset below The level q
modern Rome it l;es-a wreck Of columns and
| temples-the navcment If the ola Sacred Way
going through il under the trismnhal orrh o
SeptimuB Seyerus. Uere one NAV see tbe old
foundations laid in tho time of. 1ep1blica1
Rome. some three thoueand vaars nm In :
sunny sprjuc day. phen the wind 7aboye i
blowing the dust in rour ercs, as am forrz
to say March winds alwsrs do zvheiher Il
Rome or Andoyer. it ia ou;te n sheltered nlact
to walk in this cr1,nb]inr old Form. tYo1
arc admitted through a rI,da fIoor at the side
kent bv a ian;tor 1ho eyneeta ~ % tro n7,,,s fa,
h;a n,;rs and ,ien It ia eil hafor. ~, w,
c,n scramble oho,,t arno,,] ~ Ia ,,,;,s
f;odino he,a q eha,+o-<sa ~, ~ ;n.1r;-,;on
thera an ova,+,,rnaa oas+a, -. - a co-;,th; :,
column - n;cl;1a IN hara M then.
l,a ~ rorr1,~-,. .o-na,+;a ~ e-;o.,..1 ~, e.;,o