Rollo in Naples . fBfeSS ??-?-?- !§||? f||! ii ji-:fS^^gP^g;ovp^ SSSf if If If III/ / ^ip^SOlillf!!! An Excursion. 199 They set out on the excursion. The grotto. towards the sea. It was through this ridge ofhigh land that the famous subterranean passageway, called the Grotto of Posilipo, was cut, toopen a way for the road into the country with-out going over the hill. After driving along the street which lies be-tween the gardens and the houses on the right, asseen in the engraving, the carriage turned intoanother street, which runs behind the houses, andthence gradually ascended towards the e
Rollo in Naples . fBfeSS ??-?-?- !§||? f||! ii ji-:fS^^gP^g;ovp^ SSSf if If If III/ / ^ip^SOlillf!!! An Excursion. 199 They set out on the excursion. The grotto. towards the sea. It was through this ridge ofhigh land that the famous subterranean passageway, called the Grotto of Posilipo, was cut, toopen a way for the road into the country with-out going over the hill. After driving along the street which lies be-tween the gardens and the houses on the right, asseen in the engraving, the carriage turned intoanother street, which runs behind the houses, andthence gradually ascended towards the entranceto the grotto. Just before reaching the entrance,the land seemed to rise to a very lofty heightbefore and on each side of the road ; and it wasso built up in terraces, and garden walls, and plat-forms, and staircases of villas, that there seemedto be no way out. Rosie could not imagine, shesaid, where they could possibly be going, until atlength, at a sudden turn between two lofty walls,they saw th
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