The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-02

ing as 1t were over the citv which
mes scarcely distinguishable at Its
feet.
Inc Campagna of Rome" said
Hregorovius, lis nothing else than
The land of Latium, which is separa
ted from Tuscany by the Tiber
FROM the time OF Constantine the
Hreat the name Of Latium has fallen
INTO disuse, and that of Campania
mas been used in its place; and in
the middle ages this name indicated
great part of the so.called Ducatus
Romanus." Since the middle ages
the district has been divided into two
parts, the Campagna, which COM
prises the inland district, and the MARI
TINA, which extends along the sea
coast as far as Terraclna. Nature
herself has divided 1t by mountain and
plain into distinct compartments. II
is divided into three plains. First,
the Campagna around the city, watered
by the Tiber and the Anio, and
hemmed in by the Alban and the Sa-
bine mountains, the hills about Ron
ciglione, and the sea-coast; secondly
the great plain in which the Pontine
Marshes are situated, bounded on the
one side by the Alban and Volscian
Hills and on the other by the sea;
and, lastly, the valley Of the Sacco
which runs down between the Vols
clan and the Equian and Herman
hills.
A glance at any good map, such'
for instance, as even the one given
by Baedeker in his Central Italy
and Rome" (page 1907, will help us
to follow out the geographical divi-
sIons given as above by the great
historian. We shall see there Brac-
ciano with its lake on the northwest
Subiaco to the far east, on the west
the sea line, and in the very CEN
Ter Rome herself, with the Tiber
winding down to her from the UNI
brian uplands. And the same identi-
fication of the Campagna with the old
Latium. the Latina Tellus CLatin
I.andO, extending along the front OF
the Mediterranean for 100 miles, as
with a superficial area Of 1,245 square
miles. has been followed by Signor
Cervesaro in his work on THE Roman
Campagna," though he uses the Argo
and the Palude (the cultivable land
and the marshes) as expressing two
essential and very important divisions
of this vast area.
"The general color of the Cam
magma" says this writer, lis a tawny
red, paler where it undulates over
the terraces of the slopes. greener in
the fats where 1t expands into broad
meadows, and the whole wide plain
from one horizon to another is bathed
IN a glorious sea of light. II is that
wonderful mysterious light, the color
Of the air Of Rome OF which foreign
writer's speak; overhead. depths OF
sapphire blue which towards the
horizon melt into limpid opalescent
haze. where every color, every vapor
Is etherealized and transmitted by the
dreamy transparency Of this fairy
light. Under 1t the silent plain, starred
by asphodels, to the Greek emb. ems
of Hades. and flooded by pearly re-
Elections, seems an Elysian field,
where time is naught, and where every
reality becomes only the fleeing as
meet of an ever-vanlshing illusion
The sapphire light that enfolds 1t.
ennobles 1t indescribably, seeming
to widen the horizon, and to open
up mysterious, unfathomable distances
behind its transparent veil. Dreams
take shape and grow in this air"
Chateaubriand, too, he'd written of
this Campagna, From its barren soil
rises the shadow of the great city.
1t is more than difficult, it
is impossible to describe what one