The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-04-05
LETTER FROM EUROPE.
At SEA, January 90, 1S'

AT SEA, January 90, 1878.
Lisbon. The Army School is in Benz.
ponto Palace, and all the students are des-
tined for the army. The Naval School,
which is at the Naval Arsenal, where the
students complete in years their studies
Tor the navy after having prepared them
selves at the Polytechnic Here is also the
school of Naval Construction: the course is
? years. They have likewise to pass
through the Polytechnic. The Agricul-
tural Institute and School of Lisbon is at
the Cruz do Bodavo. The Industrial In
stitute at the Boa Vista for the industrial
classes: the studies being elementary, sec
onaary and complimentary, comprising
arithmetic, elementary geometry and alge-
bra, elements of chemistry and national
philosophy. Industrial mechanics and
designs of models and machines: the stud
les comprise forging, casting and mould
ing, iron work, including turning and
moulding, &c. The college for apprentices
at the Royal Army Arsenal is for boarding
students, maintained at the cost of the
Government, who are taught all that relate
to primary and secondary, up to elemen-
tary, mathematics. The students practice
in the different departments of the arsenal.
all that they are taught theoretically in the
schools. The academy of fine arts of
which there are schools for drawing, paint
ing. sculpture, architecture and engraving.
1t contains good pictures and statues, such
as that of Cameo, by DR.. ASST, the head
director and one of Apollo Belvedere.-
There is also some fine engravings. The
Commercial School has course of studies
for years for those intended for mercan-
tile life. The public library: it contains
nearly $50, 900 volumes, including 10000
manuscript. 1t has collection of 25, 900
ancient coins and medals. There is eight
principal water fountains: the water SUBJ
piled is furnished through 40 fountains and
wells. to which in 1865, belonged 3,41s
water carriers, the greater number ofwhch
came from the Spanish province of GULL
cha. Lisbon has public cemeteries. The
English residents have neat little ceme-
terry. Fielding, the author, lies buried
here.
January Goth. This afternoon about 4
P. NJ, arrived off the Volcanic Island of
Stromboli; owing to the thick foggy
weather, we had but an indistinct view of
it; small body of smoke appeared to be
rising from the crater, which to me, SEEM
ed to be 100 yards Or there about from the
tops. On the north side of the mount,
which rises abruptly from the waters edge,
except on the eastern side where the slope
is not rapid. At the base Of this slope
small town is built with few patches of
cultivated land around it, which stretches
up the mountain side.
January SOth. During the early part of
the morning we made the entrance to the
bay of Naples, passing through the Boco
Grand, which divides the small rocky
island of Capri. On the right, formed for
its cave and that of Ishia on the left. Two
hours and 40 minutes run up the bay
brought us to our anchorage in the grand
port inside, sheltered by the breakwater.
Naples, with its quaint old structures, cas-
ties, Mount Nesuvius, and the greatly
praised scenery of the bay, renders this one
of the most pleasant ports we have visited,
and also for the many interesting associa-
tons connected with it, both in ancient
and modern times.