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5 or two in travelling over the Campagna, where the 1847.
“hoop will be the only living objects that will surround us. Zr. 43.
{ came here expecting repose, and have found excitement,
"Towded evening parties, and late hours. At eleven o’clock
* night Doctor Masi called again, bringing me sundry
Packets of his newspaper, the Contemporaneo, which he
Lesires 10 transmit by me to Naples, thus making me a kind
mora] smuggler.”
« Naples, Feb. 27th. —Left Rowe Thursday morning, 25th
februgyy, at half-past eight, for Naples, by the new Appian
Way, Which leaves the old road of that name a little to the
"ght, on quitting the city, but falls into it a few miles off.
he Course of this celebrated old road may be distinctly
"faced at a distance by the mounds and ruins of tombs and
“mplos with which its sides are fringed. Snow fell as we
"350d ou of Rome. The view of the Campagna, with the
"ineg aqueducts stretching across its desolate surface, pre-“ted
 4 striking contrast to the luxurious and busy scene
"hich we had but a few minutes before taken leave of
"thin the city walls, These stately and graceful aqueducts
re early the only ruins which excite feelings of regret,
being perhaps the sole buildings which did not merit
lestrngtion by the crimes, the folly, and the injustice which
tend eq their construction, or the purposes to which they
Vers devoted.
nl We are now in the territory of the King of the Two
Sleiligg, who can certainly boast of ruling over more beggars
‘han any other sovereign. Mendicancy seems to be the
Profession of all the labouring people whenever they have
n Pportunity of practising it. No sooner is a travellers
rriage seen than young and old pounce upon it; the
**33ant woman throws down her load that she may keep up
"th the vehicle, bawling out incessantly for charity; the
"F who is watching the sheep, a field or two off, hurries