Rollo in Naples . igging fresh fields, some ploughing, some plant-ing, and some pruning the trees or the vines. Inmany places the vines were trained upon thetrees, so that in riding along the road youseemed to see an immense orchard on each sideof you, with a carpet of rich verdure below, anda monstrous serpent climbing up into every tree,from the grass beneath it. The scenery was very much varied, too : andthe changes were on so grand a scale that theymade the views which were presented on everyside appear extremely imposing. Sometimes theroad lay across a wide plain, many miles in extent,but
Rollo in Naples . igging fresh fields, some ploughing, some plant-ing, and some pruning the trees or the vines. Inmany places the vines were trained upon thetrees, so that in riding along the road youseemed to see an immense orchard on each sideof you, with a carpet of rich verdure below, anda monstrous serpent climbing up into every tree,from the grass beneath it. The scenery was very much varied, too : andthe changes were on so grand a scale that theymade the views which were presented on everyside appear extremely imposing. Sometimes theroad lay across a wide plain, many miles in extent,but extremely fertile and luxuriant, and bound-ed in the distance by blue and beautiful moun-tains. After travelling upon one of these plainsfor many hours, the road would gradually ap-proach the mountains, and then at length wouldenter among them, and begin to wind, by zigzags,up a broad slope, or into a dark ravine. At suchplaces Vittorio would stop, usually at a posthouse at the foot of the ascent, and take an ad-. ,;. ; •Jl Mil r V V1, .
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