Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . o the Bay of Naples. Ah! my friends, this soaring vision of Parthenope will notdo :—Capri, Sorrento, Castellamare, Vesuvius ! And yet thonL;]ino two faces are alike, look at this Malabar Hill as you pleaseiroiii the bandstand,—and was there ever such a marvellous like-ness ? An exact counterpart, it siicms to be, of Xaples for threemiles from the Castle of St. Elmo to Virgils tomb on the Pro-montory of Pusilippo, and which any man may verify at liisleisure from the deck of the steamer when he comes to liisvoyage end in the Bay of Naples. Yo
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . o the Bay of Naples. Ah! my friends, this soaring vision of Parthenope will notdo :—Capri, Sorrento, Castellamare, Vesuvius ! And yet thonL;]ino two faces are alike, look at this Malabar Hill as you pleaseiroiii the bandstand,—and was there ever such a marvellous like-ness ? An exact counterpart, it siicms to be, of Xaples for threemiles from the Castle of St. Elmo to Virgils tomb on the Pro-montory of Pusilippo, and which any man may verify at liisleisure from the deck of the steamer when he comes to liisvoyage end in the Bay of Naples. You cannot institute any comparison between tlii; \\(irl< <louehere and the work done lliere, for men in Naples have beenpiling up architecture for a thousand years. It is the ridge wesjjeak of—the right arm of IkjiIi cities—and though Naples hasmore bulk, the symmetry is the same in liolli cases. Tlie view of the lort, to which the new liuildings on theEsplanade add so jnneh beauty, is exquisite, but it is scp familiar 238 MAXABAK lALKLANi ANGKIAs PUNISltMENTS. 239 to eveiybody, and has lieeu tlie subject of so many descriptions,paintings, yea, even poems, tliat we merely allude to it. Acrossthe harbour you can see in dim persiiective those lands fromNagothna to Thai—higldand and island—and which Mr. Camp-bell, in volume xi. of tlie Bumhaij Gazetteer,^ tells belongedto the Angria family till 1840. Yes, so late as 1840, so that itdoes not require a very old man to remember these times: andyou may see the territory from your own doors. Wc sometimeshear of the advantages of the old Governments of India—Pesh-wahs, for example—to the working man, from Sir W. W. Hunterand others. Well, here was a native Government which sur-vived to our own times, and had all the advantages of proximityto a great city full of life and activity. Was it bad or good ?You know Kheneri lighthouse. Well, if the day is clear, if youlook to the left of it, you may descr
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