Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-24
Correspondence of the HeraldJ
yOttings of European TraV-i.
GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA,
INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND,
TINE 30TU 1879.

GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA,
INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND,
JUNE BOTH, 1878.
Edito, Rutland Herald In fulfil
mcnt of promise given in my last com
munication from Venice, improve this
quiet morning hour to pen a few notes
of travel from Venice, the queen of the
Adriatic, to this land of snow-crowned
mountains, deep glens, dashing cascades,
fruitful valleys, lakes of resplendent
beauty sequestered villages, princely ho-
tells, honest men, and beautiful, iudustri-
GUS women.
1 left Venice by the $40 a. m. train
Saturday, June 21st, arriving in Verona
at 10 o'clock, and, notwithstanding the
day was intensely hot, 1 visited the OBJ
iects of interest to the tourist in this
ancient city, especially the old Roman
Amphitheatre, built thirty years B. c.,
and which, though over two thousand
wears old, is well-preserved ruin, af-
fording the visitor a better opportunity
to understand the savage, inhuman as
poets of ancient sports than the Coliseum
at Rome; the prisons for the slave vic
tins, the dens for wild beasts, the pas
sages through which these human and
brute combattants met each other in
deadly conflict, the reserved seats fer the
bloody emperors and their blood-thirsty
associates, and the vast gallery for the
| fifty thousand spectators, are all dis
tinctly marked out. Verona has been
the coveted prey of many contending
forces in past generations, and is one of
the strongest fortified towns of southern
| Europe, being entirely surrounded by
strong walls and towers, and entered
only through closely guarded gates and
over deep meats. Surely, the dogs of
war are many and savage hereabouts.
After a good dinner at the Hotel de
Londre, / left this last resting place of
Shakspeares "Romeo and Juliet, for
Milan, which beautiful city we reached
at a seasonable hour for mueh-needed
and keenly- relished table d'hote, at s'Ho-
tel Reale."
Here passed quiet, restful Sabbath,
and having of necessity, since my So
iourn on the continent, been an episcop-
allan, (of course, very devout one), ]
attended service at the English church,
and heard a good sermon.
The next morning visited the world
renowned marble cathedral, walking
! amidst its forest of magnificent columns,
each column being fifty-one feet in cir
conference at the base, eighty in num-
Der, standing in parallel lines, support
| inc the vast roof, dome and pinacles,
all constructed of solid white marble, no
wood or other light substance constitut-
ing the slightest portion of this superb
structure. 1t is adorned with 1890 life
size marble statues, which are thickly
grouped in the inches of pilasters, on the
ninacles. dome, traverse buttresses, and
ineyery other conceivable position.
or course, l saw the treasury of sacred
relics. but the towel with which the
Savior wiped the Apostles feet, and the
one nail with which He was crucified,
did not see, as l was indisposed to give
the required fee.
At the very top of the spire, 300 fee
or 494 steps from the pavement, 1 nae
the great pleasure to meet Mr. ana Mrs
Peabody, formerly of Rutland, now O
{ Philadelphia | assure you that IL wa