The hand-book for travellers in Italy, from London to Naples . dered that they aremerely common house decorations, and that no pic-ture has reached us of which the ancients them-selves spoke in praise. An interesting collection ofsuch ancient paintings is formed also at Resina, theroyal palace above the ruins of Herculaneum. Not a step can be taken in Naples, nor a placevisited, advantageously, without the assistance ofFerraris Guide to Naples, or the little work ofthe Canonico D. A. de Jorio, which indicates thechief objects of interest in the city and its neigh-bourhood, to which excursions
The hand-book for travellers in Italy, from London to Naples . dered that they aremerely common house decorations, and that no pic-ture has reached us of which the ancients them-selves spoke in praise. An interesting collection ofsuch ancient paintings is formed also at Resina, theroyal palace above the ruins of Herculaneum. Not a step can be taken in Naples, nor a placevisited, advantageously, without the assistance ofFerraris Guide to Naples, or the little work ofthe Canonico D. A. de Jorio, which indicates thechief objects of interest in the city and its neigh-bourhood, to which excursions are almost is usually visited by the traveller in winter,in order that he may return to Rome in time for theceremonies of the holy week; and as at this seasonthe weather is generally as mild and delicious asa favourable English spring, the whole day is en-joyable, without the loss of time which a summerexcursion always demands; for, during the greatheats, the brightest hours are given to sleep orshelter. The neighbourhood of Naples is unrival-. ROME TO NAPLES. 183 led: the beauties of the scenery, which is so greatan attraction now, was not less sought, and valued,and visited, by the ancients; and their relics havethrown a classical charm over this country whereverpublic or domestic events relating to them haveoccurred, and amidst scenes of beauty ruins of a temple or a villa recalls the ideaof Pliny, of Cicero, of Nero, and others, who haveleft a glorious or an infamous memory to associatewith the scenes in which they lived or died. Tothe west of Naples are the promenades of the VillaReale ; and thence, following the course of the bay,the route either passes by the famous grotto throughthe hill of Posilipo towards the Bay of Baise, orcontinues by the magnificent road made by Murat,which passes round the Cape of Coruoglio, com-manding glorious views of the Bays of Naples andof Baias. A garden, through which a winding pathascends, leads to the tomb
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