Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . GROTTO OF SAN SERVOLO NEAR TRIESTE. which guides the undertaking. But in the Arsenal of Lloyds—completed in 1857, andvalued at four million nine hundred thousand gulden—we see, in the thousands of busyhands at work there, the evidences of external and physical force. One thing more—whence comes the singular name of the company ? What is meant by that word Lloyd ? It is not known to every one that Mr. Lloyd was originally the keeper ofthe Exchange Coffee-house in London, where brokers and agents were in the habit of TO TRIESTE AND MIRAMAR. 81 meeting together
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . GROTTO OF SAN SERVOLO NEAR TRIESTE. which guides the undertaking. But in the Arsenal of Lloyds—completed in 1857, andvalued at four million nine hundred thousand gulden—we see, in the thousands of busyhands at work there, the evidences of external and physical force. One thing more—whence comes the singular name of the company ? What is meant by that word Lloyd ? It is not known to every one that Mr. Lloyd was originally the keeper ofthe Exchange Coffee-house in London, where brokers and agents were in the habit of TO TRIESTE AND MIRAMAR. 81 meeting together to discuss business and strike bargains. As early as the beginning ofthe eighteenth century, the place passed into the hands of a commercial company, whichused it as a regular place of meeting, and soon had representatives in all parts of the. winckelmanns monument. world. The advices received from these various quarters were posted up at Lloyds, and,later on, published in Lloyds List, a journal which has appeared daily since the year1800. In this manner arose the world-renowned English institution, and the AustrianLloyd was modelled on it. M 82 ITALY. From the Tergesteum, the Corso leads into the old town, where are very strongfortifications, and many traces of antiquity. There is little to be said about the churchesof Trieste ; but one grave we must visit, which every German looks upon with is the sepulchre of Winckelmann, the great man who gave new light to the study ofantiquity, and who was murdered in Trieste, in 1768, at the moment when he was showingto his guide Arcangeli, a collection of ancient gold coins. (Arcangeli was himself themurderer.—Translators Note.) Lessing, although he had frequent disputes withWinckelmann, nevertheless declared that he would willingly have given two years of hisown life
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