Days near Rome . , is a cavern about fifty feet in depth, and more than onehundred in width, a part of the roof of which has evidently fallen in, andsome of its blocks remain on the spot. This may be visited from belowwithout difficulty, by a small path used by goat-herds and wood-cutters,leading across four deep ravines to Palazzuola.—Sir l-V. Cell. It is a beautiful walk or drive back to Albano, through the Galleria di Sotto, shaded by huge ilexes which were planted by Urban VIII., or are even of older date. These gigantic trees, acquainted for centuries, often lean together against the wall
Days near Rome . , is a cavern about fifty feet in depth, and more than onehundred in width, a part of the roof of which has evidently fallen in, andsome of its blocks remain on the spot. This may be visited from belowwithout difficulty, by a small path used by goat-herds and wood-cutters,leading across four deep ravines to Palazzuola.—Sir l-V. Cell. It is a beautiful walk or drive back to Albano, through the Galleria di Sotto, shaded by huge ilexes which were planted by Urban VIII., or are even of older date. These gigantic trees, acquainted for centuries, often lean together against the walls as if in earnest conversation; often, faint from old age, are propped on stone pillars, supported by which, they hang out towards the Campagna. At the end of the avenue we come upon Pompeys Tomb, beneath which are some of the Capajme or shepherds huts of reeds, described by Virgil. On the opposite side of the Via Appia stands the 76 DAYS NEAR ROME. Villa Alfieri, consecrated now to the Italian heart as having. Galleria di Sotto, Albano. been the residence of the noble and self-devoted cardinal,who died a martyr to his self-sacrifice in the cholera of 1867. The disease appeared quite suddenly during the first week in that time Albano was especially crowded with visitors of high andlow degree, from the Royal Family of Naples and the principal membersof the Roman aristocracy, to the thrifty Jewish salesman from the Ghetto,intent on combining a stroke of business with change of air. On abeautiful Monday afternoon various parties were given in the gardens ofthe principal villas, and as Albano had always hitherto been exemptfrom attacks of pestilence, no alarm was felt, though there were alreadycases of cholera at Rome. Suddenly a cloud, bringing a strange chill,seemed to rise out of the Campagna ; cloaks and wraps were broughtout for those who were feasting in the gardens, but the chill passedaway as quickly as it had come, and was succeeded by great immedi
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