Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . BATH OF DIANA, A SEA VOYAGE FROM DAI/E TO SALERNO. 411 the waters dash themselves in spray over the stones covered with sea-weed, creep sobbingand sighing into clefts and caverns, and sink below the broad line of red the open sea between the Cape, and the island of Capri, broader waves roll in anddash themselves against the naked rocks on which Ulysses once erected a temple to theprotecting Minerva. In the Middle Ages a bell-tower stood here, whose brazen tonguewarned the inhabitants of the coast of the approach of Saracen pirate ships; wh
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . BATH OF DIANA, A SEA VOYAGE FROM DAI/E TO SALERNO. 411 the waters dash themselves in spray over the stones covered with sea-weed, creep sobbingand sighing into clefts and caverns, and sink below the broad line of red the open sea between the Cape, and the island of Capri, broader waves roll in anddash themselves against the naked rocks on which Ulysses once erected a temple to theprotecting Minerva. In the Middle Ages a bell-tower stood here, whose brazen tonguewarned the inhabitants of the coast of the approach of Saracen pirate ships; whence theother name of the Cape : Campanella. The Saracens founded their kingdom on the other side of the Peninsula ; and from. RAVELLO. Amalfi down as far as Salerno we find numerous traces of the Moorish splendour. Thelatest historic monuments which were erected here, are the indiscribably picturesquetowers standing singly and solitary along the coast, where they seem to belong asnaturally to the landscape as the cactus, pine, or agave. They are called by the people,Norman, or Saracen towers; and were built for the most part in the time of Charles theFifth, as a protection against the continually renewed incursions of Moorish are altogether in ruins; but some of them have been repaired and made habitable,and poor fisher people, or equally poor coastguard-men of the new kingdom, live in thedreary tower chambers. In the loopholes where formerly the warning cannon sounded, oron the battlements whence arose the smoke of signal fires, crimson carnations are growing,tended by the wives and daughters of the present inhabitants ; and where once beardedwarriors gazed from under their rusty helmets across
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