Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . wn the flag, the sea broke devastating into the town,—and, from a population of fifty thousand inhabitants clad in gold-embroidered robes, andliving in marble palaces filled with the treasures of the East, the town diminished to apopulation of five thousand, who carry on a modest trade in fruits, carobs, and wine, andabove all in the celebrated and excellent Amalfi maccaroni. The present town is poor and dirty; but the traces of its noble descent are still to beseen in it. Its origin dates from the earliest period of the Middle Ages, and its chiefprosperity
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . wn the flag, the sea broke devastating into the town,—and, from a population of fifty thousand inhabitants clad in gold-embroidered robes, andliving in marble palaces filled with the treasures of the East, the town diminished to apopulation of five thousand, who carry on a modest trade in fruits, carobs, and wine, andabove all in the celebrated and excellent Amalfi maccaroni. The present town is poor and dirty; but the traces of its noble descent are still to beseen in it. Its origin dates from the earliest period of the Middle Ages, and its chiefprosperity was about the year iooo. The churches still bear record of this date, especiallythe fine cathedral of St Andrew. It is built in the Norman-Byzantine style, and haspreserved many precious ornaments from its youthful days; for example the fine Byzantinebronze doors, the side-posts of the central entrance with their rich scroll-work, the mosaicsof vivid colouring. But also Pagan antiquity has contributed many objects to these sacred. VIEW OF AMALFI FROM THE CAPUCHINS GARDEN. A SEA VOYAGE FROM BAIAl TO SALERNO. 4i3 aisles; such as columns brought from Pactums Grecian soil, vases, sarcophagi, and marblepanels with fine bas-reliefs. From the exterior portico, supported by pillars, you lookacross the busy market-place, and the maze of streets, and dark alleys, to gardens pressedagainst the rocks, and to vintagers huts and ruined castles perched on the summit of thecliffs. It must have cost no trilling labour to squeeze all these houses together in thisnarrow gorge,—which they fill to the giddy summit,—and to connect them by means ofstaircases, bridges, and paths over, under, and behind each other, all cut in the living house sits on the shoulders of another and looks down its chimneys! Here it isessential to keep on good terms with ones neighbours; for a dispute about boundariescould scarcely be decided by the keenest lawyer in Naples ! The most flourishing littlegarden
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