. Eight journeys abroad. GROTTO OF POSILIPO, NAPLES much higher and narrower than the new one and very impres-sive. Beyond it you see real Italian life, i. e., people living,moving and having their being in the street, along with pigs,donkeys and chickens. We went up to Solfatara and saw the sand boiling andthe steam was pouring out of innumerable crevices. Thetown of Pozzuoli, with its old port of Caligula, and its villas of Cicero and Sallust, &c., &c., and interesting Roman remains, 528 ITALY gateways, walls, &c., is delightful—such air, and the deliciousspring smell is in everything, wild
. Eight journeys abroad. GROTTO OF POSILIPO, NAPLES much higher and narrower than the new one and very impres-sive. Beyond it you see real Italian life, i. e., people living,moving and having their being in the street, along with pigs,donkeys and chickens. We went up to Solfatara and saw the sand boiling andthe steam was pouring out of innumerable crevices. Thetown of Pozzuoli, with its old port of Caligula, and its villas of Cicero and Sallust, &c., &c., and interesting Roman remains, 528 ITALY gateways, walls, &c., is delightful—such air, and the deliciousspring smell is in everything, wild sweet alyssum, yellow andpink daisies, thyme and lots of sweet flowers. We drove onto Baise and past the Lucrene Lake to Lake Avemus, with allits legends and went into the grotto of the Cumsean Sybil,which is now full of water, and the men carried us across ontheir backs. Part of the original frescoes and mosaics remain and thereare wonderfully large Roman bricks in the walls. We had not. SORRENTO time to go to the hot baths of the Roman Emperors, wherethe water is heated by the volcano, but took a drink of Fal-ernian wine, which must have been better in Horaces sat awhile with Gen. Patterson and family, before goingto pack, and found they were also coming to Pompeii got to bed very late as I had to go through the ordeal ofpacking some small pieces to take with us and leaving thelarger trunks at Naples and did not sleep well, so to-night Iam very tired and going to bed 529 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD We started for the station this morning at what seemed along time before, and it is well we did, as our horse fell and wehad to wait while they unharnessed it and got him on hisfeet. He was not properly shod and slipped all the time. Wewere pursued by boys offering us enormous bunches of violetsand camellias for i franc, and finally got to the station lateand had an exciting time getting the baggage weighed andput on the train. The Pattersons did not co
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