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316 FROM NAPLES TO POMPEII.
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p amongst erhaps stockings the younger , consisting and masculine only of memb a few ers small of the fragments community of ,
adhering fragrances m of aterial Nap , les were in in one keep street ing . alone Then numbered we did hear 37 ! that I can the
previous only say that experiences we did not in Rome enter , that and above street , all and Bologna that after , Nap our les
was _sweety despite the occasional waftings of a fishy nature which The greeted little stalls us th for at the morning sale of from fish the fruit quay & . chad apparently
g Vehicles _nbw iven engaged over th business ere in were eating till in evening their lenty , and tomatoes going their , in owners , the g , -arlic sam , were , e or direction most maccaroni likel as y .
oursmuch to our satisfaction p as there had been a question of the chances , of an encounter with , brigands had the road been
a , lonely one . These gentlemen were just at this time very onl busy a in week the nei before ghbourhood our arrival and he had escaped stopped however a banker thoug 's son h
I am y not quite sure whether wi ; th or without , a ransom , . But I for one found so much to amuse and interest during the drive
that the latter I suburb scarcel part s of y gave _Nap of the les the seem road brigands to which m a thoug looks into ht at Portici ; all besides rural and it , Resin is as onl the a y
built very over the buried city of Herculaneum erge , and after these , south come - other west inhabited slope of Vesuvius localities . is The famous former for p the lace , manufacture built on the
of the celebrated luscious win , eknown as Lachryma Ohristi _, and deserves to be scarcelless , so on account of its very
peculiar vehicles , known as y Resina cars . Not understanding ' feebl the technicalities e idea of them of coach but take -build an ing old , I -fashioned can , I feaT cabriolet , give but with a
a shabby hood , give ; it tremendously long shafts extending fore miserable and aft , attach horse it whose with trapp roug ings h-looking are altogeth rope harness er unlike to those a . thin of
looking any Eng net lish beneath horse , , in this cab structure , cart , or so waggon as just , to suspen clear d the a dirty road - ,
which comfortabl but not mi escap ght accommodate perhap e its dust s claim , and three to you be have " licensed som How e " idea to carry of a , vehicl if not le e many peop
then ! will y the intelligent reader persons imagine . are put into , on or up about Smith or ' the hang s model shafts ing-ou I , box am room , net told is , or represented attainable any other ? portion and Say which seven where , one as standing Albert of my
did impossible travelling we not companions with exaggeration our own had . Seven considered see ! most on , that an sceptical imposition particular friend October and , why an
nay morning , I positivel not onl y y more a great than many eyes once sevens counted , but sixteen twelves passengers , thirfceens ? !
316 From Naples To Pompeii.
316 FROM NAPLES TO POMPEII .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/28/
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