Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-19
Coshen--Mo. o8.

The European correspondence, this week, is from Venice and Florence, dated May B and 25. .,- -s.i.,4- -~ H. N.
 ''The ride from Vienna to Venice oc- "cupied twenty -four hours, the distance being 363 miles. do not think I will now attempt to tell you of my passage through the Semmering Pass, only to say that it was the most wonderful and enjoy able ever had, far beyond any thing I had ever dreamed of At Trieste 1 took a steamer and awoke in Venice. I step- ped into gondola, and soon landed at the steps of this fine hotel. After break fast I sallied out in this city of such strange narrow streets. sometimes two and a half to four feet wide. But there is not a horse in Venice. Although was soon lost, and had to enquire, as we'll as to say to others who were lost, and enquired the way of me, s'I could no tell, I de Amer ique" sIstill liked it. and refusing guide, succeeded in threading my way nicely, The people looked so different, and the girls were dressed so differently from any l had ever seeD, end one thing you know, you cannot be run, over by horses, and the gondolas do look so fun ny, flying around in every direction. I visited all the principal places, ascended the lofty tower, Campenille, and what a view had of the water on the South i: and, to the West, portion of the city on twenty islands (there are seventy-two in alb; and, to the East, water and piles of roofs, and, to the North, piles of houses Which looked from the lofty elevation like little red heaps. But what was tss more imposing, I saw in the Ulstance, from ff- ty to one hundred miles away, more than twenty peaks of the Tyrolean Alps. all covered with deep snow. glistening and shining brilliantly as our hills do in an ice storm The sun was shining brightly on them. and the light blended with the clouds foating among them. I crossed over and saw that flock of pigeons of which we hear so Tgch, and jed them myself, hundreds of them coming a-ound me like chickens | saw the famous clock. the two men come out with sledge- hammers, and strike the houv on the bell; but spent most time in the Palace of the Doges among the wonderful paintings, one of which is the largest in the world thirty-feet high and eighty-four feet long. Early in the morning, I started in gon- dols for the R. R. station, for could not, like Peter, weelk on the sea, and saw men and girls going to their work in boats, loads of fruits and vegetables going to market, and heard the funny. musical ''ho, hqah, of the sondoIiers. I saw them unloading eask with rope around it and fifteen men tugging away at it with the most unearthly yells. while about fifty mora were looking on, and helping by their screams. 6n the route to Florence must have seen one hundred miles of trees op the side of the railroad track fes- tooned together wiih two rows of grape vines for fences, also people Mewing and making hay. But, soon attar, we encoun- tered mountains, and passed through twenty-five or thirty tunnels, from five hundred feet to one and three.fifth miles | in length. I think there were ten that were each over aalf 2 mile long. We would flash out just a moment, then into ! the mountain again. and I think for: twen- l ty miles We Nefe Hnder ground half the time. Then the beautiful valley appeared and we went down the mountain, aad away around twenty milsa to spot across the valley from where we had been, and could see the track on the other side al- most hanging up in the clouds. Found 9 1 party of twenty English at table in Flor ence. "aa @ 1+ a
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