. Tales of adventure and stories of travel of fifty years ago. which tears The oak from its foundation, and which spills The ocean oer its boundary, and bears Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares The oval mirrors of thy glassy lake ; And calm as cherished hate, its surface wears A deep cold settled aspect none can shake, All coiled into itself and round, as sleeps the snake. Lake Nemi, the Lacus Nemorensis of the ancients, andSpeculum Diance of the poets, evidently occupies the basinof an extinct volcano. It lies at the distance of seventeenmiles south-east of Rome. A temple of Diana,
. Tales of adventure and stories of travel of fifty years ago. which tears The oak from its foundation, and which spills The ocean oer its boundary, and bears Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares The oval mirrors of thy glassy lake ; And calm as cherished hate, its surface wears A deep cold settled aspect none can shake, All coiled into itself and round, as sleeps the snake. Lake Nemi, the Lacus Nemorensis of the ancients, andSpeculum Diance of the poets, evidently occupies the basinof an extinct volcano. It lies at the distance of seventeenmiles south-east of Rome. A temple of Diana, mentionedby Strabo, and celebrated throughout all Italy, once stoodon its banks. In the years 1885-6 Sir John Lumley (nowLord Savile, ), the British Ambassador at Rome,with the permission of Prince Orsini, the owner of the pro-perty, caused many excavations to be made on the site ofthis Artemisium. Among broken columns and other archi-tectural details, votive and culinary utensils in bronze andterra cotta, coins and personal ornaments, a portrait bust. >JaAe C !? e*rru LAKE NEMI 97 was discovered on a draped plinth, at the base of whichwas traced the name Fundilia Rufa. Recently LordSavile has presented these classical antiquities to theNottingham Museum. It is to this day a place of pilgrimage for visitors inRome, as it is within a long days drive. The engraving is from one of Turners most lovely draw-ings. The great master of landscape-painting was evidentlyinspired by the quiet charm of this lonely lake among thehills, and probably painted it during his second visit toItaly in 1828, when he also painted Lake Avernus, which isnot many miles distant. Mr. Cousens engraving is one of the triumphs of his had previously had much experience in renderingTurners drawings, but in none of his plates has he evergiven us more perfect work. H 98 NARRATIVE OF AN ASCENT OF MONT BLANC IN AUGUST, 1830 By the Honourable Edward Bootle Wilbraham As I was ascending the Mont Anvert
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