. Eight journeys abroad. r leaving this we descended rapidly andthe dust became intolerable, but the scenery was so grandthat it was worth any amount of inconvenience. We camethrough the finest gorge I ever saw and which fully came upto my idea of gorges in general. We passed through whatmust have been rents in the rock, where the smooth barerock rose on each side perpendicularly to the height of atleast two thousand feet. Arriving at Domo dOssola we were once more in Italy— here we made a short stop, and then going on soon struck Lake Maggiore, but did not arrive at Arona until twelve oclock
. Eight journeys abroad. r leaving this we descended rapidly andthe dust became intolerable, but the scenery was so grandthat it was worth any amount of inconvenience. We camethrough the finest gorge I ever saw and which fully came upto my idea of gorges in general. We passed through whatmust have been rents in the rock, where the smooth barerock rose on each side perpendicularly to the height of atleast two thousand feet. Arriving at Domo dOssola we were once more in Italy— here we made a short stop, and then going on soon struck Lake Maggiore, but did not arrive at Arona until twelve oclock at night. However we were lighted along our way 169 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD by the full moon and it was very charming, notwithstandingthe fatigue. The next morning we went up to Isola Bella, where isthe Duke Borromeos country seat. His gardens are thefinest I ever saw, and must have taken an immense amountof labor. The solid rock has been cut into terraces and thencovered with soil and planted with the rarest flowers and. LUGANO, SWITZERLAND shrubs. The palace contains some fine works of art and el-egant tables and vases, &c. We had got down into a warmclimate where all the people spent their time out of was certainly amusing to active Americans to watch themlolling about doing nothing or else performing their duties inthe most listless, dragging way. We got on to Luino by boat, a town at the head of the lake,and a delightful drive of three hours through the moonlight brought us over to Lake Lugano where we spent the night. 170 ITALY The next morning we took a stroll through the town andbought a pair of little peasant girls shoes in the market forLolly to see. We had front rooms at the hotel looking outupon the Lake as beautiful a view as possible, combining allthe elements of beauty with some of grandeur. An hoursride on the Lake the next morning and two more in a diligencebrought us to Lake Como, at the town of Menaggio, and fromthis place we took the boat down to Co
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