Wanderings in the Roman campagna . THE LAND OF SATURN 71. Valley of the Rivus Albanus near Decimo. (From a photograph by A. Aocliieri) obedience even to them, the cheapness of a shootingHcense, which can be purcliased by tlie poorest peasants,have destroyed animal life in the Campagna, except inthe royal preserves of Castel Porziano. Nothing is leftto shoot bnt birds of passage at given seasons of theyear, and even then it is a matter of carnage and de-struction, not of sport. The only breed of animalswhich seems to be flourishing and which constitutes theonly real danger the explorer has to f
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . THE LAND OF SATURN 71. Valley of the Rivus Albanus near Decimo. (From a photograph by A. Aocliieri) obedience even to them, the cheapness of a shootingHcense, which can be purcliased by tlie poorest peasants,have destroyed animal life in the Campagna, except inthe royal preserves of Castel Porziano. Nothing is leftto shoot bnt birds of passage at given seasons of theyear, and even then it is a matter of carnage and de-struction, not of sport. The only breed of animalswhich seems to be flourishing and which constitutes theonly real danger the explorer has to face nowadays arethe shepherds dogs. The church of the Divino Amoreat Castel di Leva, on the Via Satricana, bears testimonyto this state of things. It appears that in the year 1740a missionary priest, having lost his way in that neigh-borhood, spied the roof of a house when he was almostspent in body and mind. At the same time a number ofthe farm dogs sprang upon him, tearing his coat topieces while he was appealing in his distress to a figure 72 WANDERI
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