Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29
WHOLE NUMBER 1l73.
LETTERS FRom AnnoAp.
NAPLES, TrALY, April ts7.


, was enough, l could sleep no longer The
Bay Of Naples was before me, stretching out
as Tar as the eye could reach with the noun.
tains to the right or East, an island in tbe dis
tancc, South that of Capri Think. and on Tho
quay ociore the house soldiers were having
their early drill. Beautiful the picture Let
not my poor pen attempt any farther COM
ments.
The day was so dark and coltIAhat no ex-
cursion was possible so we took The Museum
Tor our days work | saw "days." but. with
no seats there, two or three hours arc enough
TO tire me out 1t is most interesting place
room after room Of statues, bronzes, and GU
HosTles OF P0mpcii--indced the greatest part
IS composed OF things brought from there
cooking utensils, beds, (of course the wooden
parts found 50 charred are replaced by fresh
WOODY bars from windows Qor they did not
have any glass; loayes of bread, or cake that
look 10 me like drab smoking cans. larpe
pieces OF plaster walls covered with those
graceful figures in fresco that are so world.
renowned. The "Farnese Bull" stands at one
end OF long room-an immense group of
five figures, little over size think, and all
cut from one piece Of marble 1t was found
IN the baths Of Caracalla, like many other
things here. At the opposite end is the splen-
did Greek Hercules" found also there. The
Museum is still uncompeted, and as yet no
catalogue is made ont correctly, and many of
Tue rooms are unfinished, but when all is ar.
ranged 1t VIII be a very fine collection; there
Is an Egyptian room and a picture gallery of
considerable extent but little merit, but The
great interest il tha hoo G,1
Fompcian bronzcs and terra cottas, of which
ialter alone there are eight rooms full In the
evening we were escorted to tho dock to catch
view OF Nesuyius. 1t is said to be very ac-
tive at present, but tonight it was calm and
there was only small light visible at the
mouth of one of the cratcrs l should have
thought it red light from the mast of a near
ship lying in the dock, until a more fitful
glimmer was perceived from the second peak,
that came up every few minutes
Thursday our fear disappeared with the
sight of the bright sky, and therefore at ten o.
clock found US off for Pompei 1t is only a
snort ride but full of beauty, the Bay at our
right hand all the way so Gerry blue it is, can
1t be entirely the reflection of the skyl Il
looked to-day like great tub of bueing wa
ter! There as usual you see am comparing
these sublime beauties with the commonest
domestic scenes, but that always was nv adj
mration. A very strong wind made little
White caps all over it, and gave just enough
swell to the water to make an agreeable rise
for the row-boats-propelled, see as in Ven
Ice by men standing up facing the bow and
1eathering the oar. The first station at which
the cars stopped was Herculaneum. Only
small part is eXcayated because the lava is
very difficult 10 cut, whereas Pompeii was
overwhelmed with ashes which is compare
lively easy 10 dig out We could sec nothing
of the old city from the cars, but we pass
through an embankment of lava about there.
Nesuyius lies at our left all the way while we
follow the curve of the Bay and thus get
around the other side of it by the time we are
at Pompeii. The volcano, pictured in my
memory years ago from Geography sketches,
always was wonderful, but now that see it'll
wonder afresh at the hidden power forever at
work so deep under that small mountain.
saw 1t yesterday and thought il was pretty
hill with its top hidden in a remarkably airy
cloud, but to-day there was no mistaking the
white cloud that pours out OF the crater and
floats down the side--pure and white and not
at all like smoke. The Hermitage" seems
only short way up compared TO the steep
climb that must follow Our friends advised
US not to try that terrible hours struggle on
all toursr especially when the volcano is so ac-
tive as now, for it is hazardous to approach
the cIater.
just as it was in Rome !-everywhere we
went it seemed as if all the world had de-
cided to 20 too that day; so at the station
crowd got out to spend few hours at Pom
peii with US. But one-third of the city is ex-
cayated, but that one-thrd is a good three
hours walk. OF course that shows it was
only small cIty-30,000 inhabitants every
things looks small and close together, the
streets very narrow, with hardly room for two
chcriotS TO pass the rus of which are deeply
cut in the rough pavement of large flats
stones A narrow walk is raised on either
side and in some places are one or two large
stones placed SO y to step across from one
side to the other, thus preventing getting the
feet wet l have seen in Florence, streets as
narrow as the principal ones hefe-about five
PAGES across. The house of Glaucas was of
course the most interesting The house of
the wealthiest men of POmpeii in whose cellar
were discovered the skeletons OF those poor
people who evidently had carried food down
there and thus hoped TO escape the dreadful
death, but the fine ashes penetrated the cracks.
One immense house has several courts and in
Vulnerable rooms. All the houses have courts
in the centre, surrounded by succeed pillars,
a fountain and basin for hsh in the centre, and
fOors of mosaic. The pretty bedrooms are
irescocd with bright red, yellow or black
grounds and delicate little cupidS, female ig.
ures and animals of arabesIues beautifully eK-
ecuted. Once in a while, we hnda narrow
staircase, but nowhere did see Q secoRd sto-
ry. The amphitheatre Is grand place, though
good deal broken down; the BasilicA, OF
Court of Justice is found with the small pris-
on underneath the tribune, where the prisOn-
ers awaited their sentence, pronounced to
them through two holes in the roof; a temple
of Venus and another of Iris public baths,
bakers shops, wine shops in abundance, and
do not know how many other places, arc
full of interest. There seems TO be no marble
an Of Al.