. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . ky; thehouses are plainly distinguished, and you can almostfancy that you can descry the groups of idlers leaningover the parapet of the little piazza, so clear is the atmos-phere. Sometimes the island is bathed in a bluish haze,and by a curious atmospheric effect a novel form ofFata Morgana is seen, the island, appearing to be liftedout of the water and suspended between sea and sky. The grounds of the Villa Nazionale are extensive, andlaid out with taste, but are disfigured by inferior plastercopies, colossal in size, of famous a
. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . ky; thehouses are plainly distinguished, and you can almostfancy that you can descry the groups of idlers leaningover the parapet of the little piazza, so clear is the atmos-phere. Sometimes the island is bathed in a bluish haze,and by a curious atmospheric effect a novel form ofFata Morgana is seen, the island, appearing to be liftedout of the water and suspended between sea and sky. The grounds of the Villa Nazionale are extensive, andlaid out with taste, but are disfigured by inferior plastercopies, colossal in size, of famous antique statues. Itis strange that Naples, while possessing some of thegreatest masterpieces of ancient sculptors, should besatisfied with these plastic monstrosities for the adorn-ment of its most fashionable promenade. The most in-teresting feature of the Villa Nazionale is the is not merely a show place, but an international bio-logical station, and, in fact, the portion open to the publicconsists only of the spare tanks of the laboratory. This. VIRGILS TOMB 335 institution is the most important of its kind in Europe,and is supported by the principal European Universities,who each pay for so many tables. At the entrance to the tunneled highway known as theGrotto di Posilipo, which burrows through the promon-tory that forms the western bulwark of Naples, andserves as a barrier to shut out the noise of that over-grown city, is a columbarium known as Virgils guide-books, with their superior erudition, speakrather contemptuously of this historic spot as the so-called tomb of Virgil. Yet historical evidence seems topoint to the truth of the tradition which has assignedthis spot as the place where Virgils ashes were onceplaced. A visit to this tomb is a suitable introduction tothe neighborhood of which Virgil seems to be the tutelarygenius. Along the sunny slopes of Posilipo the poetdoubtless occasionally wended his way to the villa ofLucullus, at the extreme e
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