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Embark in the Roxana at Boston...Voyage to Gibraltar...
Straits and fortress... Coasts of Spain and Africa... Voy-
age continued....Description of medusa.... Portuguese
Se men of war....Sardinia... Meritimo... View of Sicily...
Arrival at Palermo... Prospect of quarantine...Sicilians.
LETTER II.
Quarantine.... Release from quarantine....Page's Hotel....
Its apartments, &c....The Marina....Public garden....
Lazzaroni...The principal street.
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LETTER III.
Vice Roy and family attending mass... The Ottongolo...
Fountains...Statues mutilated...Churches... Mendicity...
Fleas...Inconveniences at the Hotel.
LETTER IV.
Ill Colla....Villa Favorite...The Olive....Scenery....Stone
quarries... Aqueducts...La Bagaria... Palace of Prince
Polonia...Queen's palace...Scenery.
LETTER V.
Sabbath... An excursion...Lizards... Insects...Vineyards...
Prickly pear.... Public Square....The Opera.... Ride to
Mont Reale... Cathedral... Monastery... Landscape.
LETTER VI.
Table talk....Churches....Situation of Palermo....General
sketch of streets, markets, &c.
LETTER VII.
Departure from Palermo....Faro of Messina....Calabrian
and Sicilian coasts... Messina from the Faro...Etna...
Sicilian coast and Etna, views of...Arrival at Catania...
First view of Catania...Convent of St. Nicoloso.
LETTER VIII.
Signor. Lombardo Buda...Elephant of lava...Prince de
Biscaris...Story of his marriage... His garden...A dying
Frenchman.
LETTER IX.
Church of St. Nicoloso...Mass and music...Lava of 1669,
covered the City... Monte Rosso... Attempt at theft and
its punishment... Afflictions of Buda...Theatre of Prince
de Biscaris....St. Nicoloso....The Organ....Relinquish
visiting Etna...Museums...Roads and travelling in the
interior.
LETTER X.
New-year's view.... Buda's ills....The captain's report....
Descent into ancient Catania... View from the bay...
Remarks.
LETTER XI.
Departure from Catania....Voyage through the Faro of
Messina, a squall there...A water spout... The Lipari
Islands...Strombolo... A gale... Arrival at Palermo.
LETTER XII.
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Mr. A. attended by a Palermitan physician...Music and
devotion of the Palermitans... The Opera...Madam Dar-
danella...Manners of the opera...Sirocc wind...Tem-
perature of Sicily compared with New-England and
its relation to human life... A masquerade... A religious
procession.
LETTER XIII.
Sicilian diving...Excursion to the shrine of St. Rosalia..
Mt. Peregrino...Provincial pecularities of Catania.
LETTER XIV.
A convent of Capuchins...Singular manner of burial... Ride to Mt. Reale... The Prince d'Aci at hburial...
New residence of my friends.
gardens...
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LETTFR XV. Jan10...
Voyage to Naples...Description of the bay. Vesuvius...
Arrival and prattique.... Police investigation....hodg-
ings... First walk in Naples...The Studio...The Cata-
combs.
Review of Austrian troops...Weather...Grotto of Pausi-
lypo...Pozzuoli...Temple of Diana...Solfatara...Amphi-
theatre and other ruins of Baiæ... Monastery of St.
Januarius...Second day at Baiæ...School of Virgil...
Lucrine lake...Avernus... Grotto of the Sibyl... Baths of
Nero....Cape of Misenus....Elysian Fields....Prison of
Nero...Tomb of Agrippina.
LETTER XVII.
The tomb of Virgil...Public garden...The Opera...Portici...
The King's palace and museum.
LETTER XVIII.
Herculaneum continued...Pompeii... Vesuvius.
LETTER XIX.
A morning at the Studio...Preparatious for a journey to
Rome...First day's journey...Fondi...Terracina... Pon-
tine marshes...Valletri.
LETTER XX.
Journey to Rome continued...Tomb of the Horatii and
Curatii...Arrival.
LETTER XXI.
Arrival at Rome....The first excursion....Pantheon...St.
Peters...Quirinal and Colonna palaces.
LETTER XXII.
Place Colonna...Ceremony at the sixtine chapel.... The
Pope and Cardinals... Galleries of the Vatican.
LETTER XXIII.
The Coliceum...Gardens among ruins... The tarpeian rock
....The modern Capitol....The church of St. Peter in
prison...The Moses of Michael Angelo...Baths of Ti-
tus.....Church of St. Peter in the mountain....Pau-
line fountain....Villa Pamfili....Doria palace....St. Pe-
ters....Place Navone....Superb fountains....Triumphal
arches...Baths of Caracalla...Temple of Romulus.
LETTER XXIV.
Bath of Caracalla... Tomb of Cecilia Metella...Sabbath...
Catacombs of St. Sebastian... Fountain of Egeria, z
LETTER XXV.
Palace Farnese....Cassino do....Paintings....The Marquis
Canova... Tolwalson a Danish artist....Ponte Lamen-
tano...The sacred bill.
LETTER XXVI.
The statues of Rome... An ancient statue of St. Peter..J
Modern sculpture compared with ancient...The earliest
productions of Canova...Statues sculptured by him at
St. Peters and the Vatican...The tomb of Tasso...Mag-
nificence of modern Rome...Modern architecture...St.
Carlos...Hospitals...A morning at St. Peters...Excur-
sion to Tivoli...Capuchin burial...Preparations for holy week...Manners of strangers at Rome,...Ceremonies of the passion week...Excursion to Frescati....Conclusion of ceremonies and departure from Rome.
LETTER XXVII.
Journey to Florence...Civita Castellano...Travelling com-
panions...Otricoli...Terni...Falls of Terni...Village fête.
LETTER XXVIII.
Perugia....Pietro Perugino....Michael Angelo....Thrasi-
menus...Defeat of Flaminius...Torricelli.
LETTER XXIX.
Ossaia...Cortona...Arezzo...Val d'Arno... Vallambrosa.
LETTER XXX.
Florence... The Medicean chapel...The Gallery of Flor-
ence...Venus de Medicis....Anatomical preparations of
wax...Venus of Canova...The Opera.
LETTER XXXI.
Leghorn and journey thither...Return to Pisa...Lucca...
Journey to L'Erice.
LETTER XXXII.
Voyage to Genoa in an open boat...A gale...Arrival at
Genoa....Era of Columbus....Asylum for the poor....
Fortress Spezone.... Military review at which the King
is present... The Opera.
LETTER XXXIII.
Genoa continued...Its wealth and activity...Harbour and
mole... Arsenal...A night scene... Preparations for de-
parture.
LETTER XXXIV.
Departure from Genoa and journey to Turin...Travelling
Jzcompanions...Religious procession at Monte Cavalre....
Arrival at Turin.. Arsenal..General remarks, dress, &c..
The Opera...Departure from Turin...Suza... Ascent of
Mt. Cenis... Breakfast on the summit of the Alps...Inn-
-keeper and family...
LETTER XXXV.
Passage of the Alps continued...Houses of refuge... Place
of deposit for merchandize... Descent of the Alps...
Chamberry...Alpine scenery...Descent of the Alps con-
tinued....Scales of Savoy....Submontane excavation.... -Pont de Beauvoisin....Custom-house adventure...Ver- .spiliere..!
LETTER XXXVI.
Arrival at Lyons... Cathedral... Bridge... Hotel de Ville...
Street scene... Mons. Paul...His love of country how dis-
covered.
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Voyage to Chalons...Village reception on the Saone...
Macon...A night on the Saone.
to anodsisqang LETTER XXXVIII.
Chalons...Departure from that place... Auxerre... General
remarks...Sens...Funeral monument...Melun...Montro...
The King's forest... Villeneuve-View of Paris.
LETTER XXXIX.
Paris.,.Manners,..Cabinet of natural history...Conclusion.