Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-16
KILLOCH LETTERS FROM ABROAD.
In Northern Italy-Napo1eons Road Over the Alps. Lake Maggiori-Outdoor Dinner-M Mian-Da Vinci's "Last -Genoa-Evening Wa1k-Streets- m-Morning Market-Columbus- us-Pisa-Lean- ing Tower -Blunder- aileo-Campo Santo-Ar- rival in Rome

1 ened by a great hubbub. Springing ! from a dream in which an ass issbray- ! ing into our ear, and lion believing over a fallen ex-president in Africa, ! and a whale is about to swallow a
 second Jonah, we step through our
 window to a balcony to look down up- 1 on greotesque scene in the Piazza | A1nmuszitata, in front of the hotel It ! is 4-30 in the morning, and the great ] plaza or square is a beehive of mar i ket place, with hundreds of men and l women bartering and selling vegeta- | ables, farm products and orchard l fruits of every description and shade l of color; many that are wholly new and eunfamiliar to us. We tried to count the busy people and found it ] very like trying to count hundreds of ! poultry in one yard after being fed. | We, did count up to 2,000 and gave uV in dismay at the number. There was mingled discord and harmony in the crowd. All sorts of humors and human nature were apparent. At 9 o'clock, when we left for our train, the throng was beginning to diSperse and we were told that at 10 o'clock it would all be cleared off and literally swept clean and no trace of the busy mart be left
 In front of the stazion (our station) stands a colossal monument to CoIum-' bus, who was born here in 1446 and who discovered the world6?) still lat CT. How many have vainly tried to discover worlds to conqueri
 Our railway skirts the sea coast over hundred miles, literally through the mountains. because of many and long tunnels. to Pisa, where a stop of sev- Leaning Tower here. which has made this quaint Italian city of about 30,000 inhabitants very celebrated, and brought many touristsahere from all quarters of the world; and all because a blunder was made in the construc- tion of the campanile or bell tower It was begun in 1174 and completed in 1850, in spite of the sinking of the foundations on one side so as to make the structure IA feet out of the per- mains all through the centuries so firm, when the similar cam panic at Venice fell a few years ago so disastrously, when that was wholly in plumb. as builders say. Calico availed himself of the oblique inclination of the tower in making his experiment regarding the velocity of falling badies.
 The Campo Santo or Sacred Ceme- tery. near by. is worth visiting. It dates from 1203 when an archbishop had conveyed hither 53 shiploads of soil from Jerusalem to be here the last resting place of the saints of his day. Sculptures. Urns. sarcophagi, statues. tombs and frescoes are here in lavish abundans, ath fabulous cost of great historic and biogra phic importance, ana SkllluI aEUSIlc m6Tll-
 Another journey of over two hun dred miles through smaller towns and a region of pessantry which is now teeniing with golden llarvests and way ing fields. Late at night our train pulls into imperial Rome, 'the great mother of the world.' Our hotel bus awaits the party, and quickly as possible we are under the sheets of re- pose on the goodly "Buvenia-" where | in the morning we wake up to tell an other story, as Kipling would say, so good night in Romel
 KILLOCH.