File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14589971079).jpg

Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ON THE ROOFS. But at length the hour of departure approaches. Our last walk leads us to the samegoal as our first; that is to say, to the Piazza di San Marco. In front of the gilded churchstands the proud campanile, the bell-tower, which we mount by a steep winding way.
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SCENE IN CHIOGGIA. Of THE r*-TY OF H VENICE. 77 From the low chamber of the guardian of the tower, from among the beams where thebells hang—(formerly these bells sounded only in accordance with the commands ofthe Doge)—we step into the open air, and, as by enchantment, we behold land and seastretched out before our eyes. The mountains of Verona, and the far mists of theAdriatic ; the spires of palaces, and the points of masts ; a sea of houses and waterslies before us ! Now again it is flood-tide, and, as it rises, the city seems to sink into theadvancing waves. We might almost fancy that she must sink on for ever, down, down,deeper and deeper—into her grave. TO TRIESTE AND MIRAMAR. E looked after the steamer which was putting out to sea through the Porto diLido, one moonlight night. Already we can scarcely see the long pillar ofsmoke which marks her track, nor the red light at her masthead. She plungesonward through the foaming waves, and her destination is Trieste. Nearlyevery

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