The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-04
A TRIP TO HARIDAN VILLA.
MosT DEAUTIFUL VIEWS DESCRIBE
 ED BY | qRAVELER.
Romantic Spots Visited-They Covered a Tract of Land Eight Square Miles in Ex- tcnt-Deseription of the Ruins of the Famous Place.

Famous Place.
 Dresden, January 21, 1896. 10 the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER;
 The Sabine mountains are a portion of the chain known as the Apennlnes, and as they descend abruptly they form 8 grand natural boundary of the Roman plain. They are most picturesque in their appearance, and replete with in- tense interest from the fact that among them were built the Sabine towns which were ancient landmarks long prior to the time when Romulus laid the first foundations of Rome
 The formation of the Sabine noun tains is limestone, while that of the Alban hills is purely volcanic. The Sabine mountains are nearly 4,500 feet high, considerably higher than the AL ban mountains.
 experience of a warm day in Rome to stand on the Capitoline hill or on the Palatine, or at any other prominent place in the city and view these two mountain ranges purpling in the dis tance, with delightful little towns scat tered upon their dark sides, showing white in the sunlight. F'rascoti and Tivoi fairly glitter in the distance like jewels; alas! their sheen disappears as We approach them, and their ancient appearance causes them to look as if just recovering from a terrible lombard ment.
 It was a glorious day when we start ed on our trip to Tivoli, and as we steamed away from the city, leaving churches and temples behind us, it was delightful to feel we were rapidly trav- cling over the rich Campagna, where we saw many focks of sheep and goats, thousands of feathered fowls, great herds of horned cattle and buffaloes. Very many horses scampered away at the shrill whistle of our engine, and the Campagna seemed teeming with life.
 The Roman peasants were clad in their singular multi colored garb, and the whole scene was like a. great ami mated water color. The Romano Cam pagna is grand tract of territory, and were it owned by an hundred thousand land owners, due attention would then be given to drainage, and there would be a large population living where now there are only 8 few vine dressers and goatherds, and thousands of rich and productive farms would take the place of dismaA tracts where now the cattle roam at large, where fever and ague reign supreme, forbidding human beings to live in a region where grim malaria would flee away were it possible to drain the heavy, stagnant soil
 If the Romano Campagna was not in the possession of comparatively few owners who are satisfied to occupy it as pasture ground, it would become one of the healthiest and loveiest districts in Italy
 The broken aqueducts which we pass from time to time remind us the dis tance to Tivoh is fully twenty miles by railway. We see much to interest us on our way. The farther We go from Rome the nearer we approach Tivoli, and the Sabine and Alban hills seem to fairly scintillate in the monday sun.
 At a distane of ten miles we make short stop at Lunghezza the most an- cient town of Collatia. This is pretty spot, belonging to the Duke Strozzi. A 
 very ancient castle seems to grimly dominate the surroundings Then four miles further on we arrive at Bagni This is the sulphur bath of ,"Aquae Albuae," the old Roman "Aquae Albu- lae' It was much frequentedin in ancient times as a grand health resort, and strange to say, as late as 1890 it was again fitted up with a handsome health o,,1 cyrr.r,, ,,,oi11 11r, bath was arranged, and many resort hither for sulphur bathing.
 Long before We stopped we saw the white water running away in every di- rection, and the smell of the same was like unto the smell of sulphurated hy- drogen, only ten times more powerful How people can consent to bathe in such malodorous water is something which l cannot understand. In quar- ter of an hour we arrived at small place called Monte Celio,' built on the site of the ancient Corniculum This place is now owned by the Borghese family. Not far away is a lonely peak with 8 castle which was built six hum dred years ago. The view from this place is magnificent The great dome ofSt. Peters is plainly seen as We speed along, III Iact, IL IS III SlSnC all Lne way to Tivo1i. We now ascend the hills, winding in and out, losing sight of the Campagna, and now finding it again and the higher we ascend the more plainly looms up the dome of St. Peters, and before we are aware of it we stop at our destination, Tivoli.
 Tivoli is the very ancient Tibur. It was a very old colony of the Seculi long prior to the foundation of Rome To judge from it's battered, gray appear ance one would think it coeval with the deluge As long ago as 300 B. c. the Roman general Camillus besieged and took Tibur Afterward it became ai- lied with Rome. This has always been g favorite summer retreat of the nobles of Rome. Augustus, Maecenas and other well known Romans had fine villas at Tibur There are two ancient tenn ples here One is dedicated to Vesta, the other is the temple of the Sibyl, with nearly twenty of the old Corinth- ian columns in situ, and as the temples stand conspicuously above the great water falls they possess a grand, nay, even sublime appearance.
 The water falls at Tivoh are very beautiful Owing to an inundation of the river Anio seventy years ago, which devastated large portion of the town,