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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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rrow passage, 757 yards inlength, with a height varying from 87feet at the entrance to 20 feet in the inte-rior, and a breadth of between 20 and 30feet, is the main thorouglifare betweenNaples and the small suburban towuis ly-ing toward the west. Just before thetraveller enters the mouth of the gas-litcavern he passes the tomb of Virgil.There is nothing but probability and local in a line with the Grotto of Posilippo, illu-minating the entire length of the gloomycavern. Naples owes little of her attraction toher buildings. Her National Museumwas originally a cavalry barracks, erectedby tlie Viceroy Duke of Ossuna in 1586.Subsequently it was ceded to the universi-ty, which was established there for a time,but in 1790 it was fitted up for the recep-tion of the royal collection of pictures andantiquities. The museum contains trea-sures of antiquity from Herculaneum andPompeii, together with rare objects fromall x)arts of the world. The collection isunrivalled. Besides the various objects
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STAIRCASE IN THE ROYAL PALACE. tradition to prove that the ashes of theLatin poet once rested here. No trace re-mains of the hallowed urn, but there canbe no doubt that Virgil once lived andAvrote upon the hill of Posilippo. Beyondthe tomb, at the entrance of the passage,stands a small chapel, and in the interiorare others, where the faithful stop and saya prayer. There are certain days in Marchand November when the sun sets directly taken from the two great buried cities, itincludes the Farnese collection from Romeand Parma, those of the palaces of Por-tici and Capo di Monte, and also treasuresresulting from tiie excavations at Romeand Stabise. Naples abounds in royal palaces. Thereare five in the city and suburbs, which thetraveller may visit at pleasure, providedthey are not at the time occupied by any 758 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

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