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Show TIIK PALtSTlE PAUTY. Hotel d'Al'im a'JSE, liuiie January, -rd, Editor Salt Lalu Uraid : After I had mailed my last letter to you t'fm enioe, on tiie o.h iu-t, Mr. j Geo- Duoford, of our i,jrLy, received letters from how-: tht r.n'iired his immtdia; return on account of bu3.- , ne-s matt'-M, and ho left us on the 1 morninif of the 7th iut., very mueh regretting that circum.itaLceS did not p;rriiit huu to go with us any further. We left Venice on the isth at7:4iu.m., via Padua and Ferrari tor LMona, where we arrived at 1:15 p-oi- 'ir,H is one of the most ancieut and important import-ant towns of Italy, '.ho capital ot magua, m mated in a icrti.u piaiH at the ba.se ol the Apenniue-, between the Keno and the Aposa and the Saveua nvum; population about. W.UW. It po.ewes loU ohureliM, twenty monasteries monas-teries and a vcuerablc aul celebrated univernuy. The towu ws founded by the Klruscans. Iruerius introduced the study of the Boman law in !--whiUt his huccc-ftsors the Gladiators devoted their energies in its interpretation. interpre-tation. Tho studies of medicine and philo-ophy were introduced at a later period, and a theological faculty was u-ubli-ditd by Pope Innocent i. Tno anatomy of the human frame was tirst tiught hero in the 14th century, aud here galvauim was discovered by Jos. Galvani in IT-'f. It is a remarkable remarka-ble fact, that this university has numbered num-bered members of the fair sex among its professors, anong them Vovella . d' Andrea, a lady of great personal attractions, at-tractions, who is said to have been concealed by a curtain during her lectures. Tho antiquated aspect of the town, its picture-quo inedia-, inedia-, eval architecture, lotty arcade? and venerable churches, all bear testi-' testi-' mony to tho peculiar character of the 1 place. Wc visited tho gallery of tine i arts, tho nnatomicil museum, said to be ono of tho finest in the world, and took a drive through the town and tc J tho villa of kiDg Victor Emanuel, situ-" situ-" ated on a hill, from which a very liut i view is obtained of tho city and it: environ!".. Bologna also boasts of twt Ipnninir fnwiirM. Ono of them, tht Tarro Asinelli, was erected by Ghcrar- i do dcgli Asinelli in 1 1U1J, ia 272 loot high und three iect four inches out of tho perpendicular; the other, tho Tarro Ganscnda, was erected in 1110 by Filippo and Ottono Gariscuda, is only 138 icct high, but eight feet out of the perpendicular. On tho Oih wo left Hologna, at 1:25 p.m., lor Florence. Theroad over tho Tuscan Apennines is one of tho most imposing structures of tho kind in existence. Bridges, forty-five forty-five tunnels and heavy fills aro traversed in uninterrupted euccessicn. Beautiful views aro obtained of the va1 leys and gorges of tho Apennines, and toward Florence wo descended on a very steep grade in a regular zigzag, and going three times over tho samo ground, to tho luxuriant plains of Tuscany, called the "Garden of ItrJy." Wo arrived at Florence at 5:46 p.m., and put up at tho hotel Victoria. During our stay wo called upon the American vice-consul, Mr. J. C Matteini, Ho. 7 Via Maggio, aud registered our namer. Of tho principal churches we vibited the cathedral, a very fine edifice on tho outside, out-side, 555 feet Iodk, 340 leet wide, 354 feet high; tho Batlistero, Carmine, San Croco, San Lorenzo and San Michael, Mi-chael, tho palaces of JSecchia and Pitti, and a lino gallery of pictures and statues. Florence has now about 140,-0U0 140,-0U0 inhabitants, and Is beautifully t-itu-ated on both banks of tho Arno. The principal drives and the park aro evecy afternoon crowded with the finest fin-est turnouts of tho fashionable world, and we havo never before seen so much display since we left home. On the 4th inst., we took train lor Pisa at 9 20 a.m. and rcaehed there nbout 11 30 a.m. In the afternoon we visited tho campanile or olock tower, remarkable remark-able for its obliquo position. It waa commenced in 1174- and finished in 1150 ; it rises in eight different storiea, is 151 feet high and 12 feet out of tho purpendicular and is usually known as tho "leaning tower." Tho basilica or uaihcdial oluac by is a lino edifice, constructed entirely of white marble with black and colored ornamentations, 202 feet in length, These being tho principal attractions of Pisa, we left next morning at 9 50 a-m. for Homo, where we arrived in beautiful moonlight moon-light at 10 p.m. Wo put up at tho Hotel d'Allmafine and commenced our arrangements lor sight-3eeing with the agent of Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Mr. Shakspore Wood, on Friday morning morn-ing tho 17th inst., and I will give you tho names of all the places of interest which wo visited eveiy day, as it would bo impossible for mo to go into details. If you oan form any idea of tho distances dis-tances of this city, once the mistress oi tho world, situated on seven hills, you will seo that we have been doing hard work, to see all that could be scon in so short a time as waa allotted to us : Friday 7th, we visited the old Komun farm between the Capitolioo and Palatine Pala-tine hills, saw the ruins of the Basilica Augustus and that of Ju!ius,the temple of Castor and Pollux and that of Vespasian, Vespa-sian, the ruins of the public treasury,the Arch of Titus, the rostrum of tho celebrated cel-ebrated Roman orators.the Via Sacra, the old water drain and marks on the pavement of different games played at that early period by tho "boys" of those Koman citizen?. Thence wo drove to the Coloseum, the temple of Nenus and Home, tho arch of Constantino, Con-stantino, tho church of St. John Lat-eran, Lat-eran, the Baptisterio eloso by, where tbcro is a lout in which Constantino is said to have been baptised, thence to the church of St. Maria Maggoire and the church of St. Anthony, where we witnessed the blessing of horses, mules, etc., as it was St. Anthony's Day. Some of tho horses driven up to the door of the church, and even our own team that we had that day, really seemed to be in need of a first class blessing. The place around the door of the church was lousy with beggars. beg-gars. After looking at tho Santa Seala, or holy staircase, which is said to have been brought hero from the palace of Pilate, and on which the Savior oame down fiom tho bail of judgement, and the aqueduct of Nero, which was thirty-live miles long, wo returned to the hotel being satisfied that wc had done a good day's work. The following day it rained very hard aud wc spent our time in writing up our journals. In the evening somo of our party visited vis-ited Apollo Theatre, and witnessed the performance of the opera of Ballo il Masherc, which as the name indicates, indi-cates, includes a regular Italian masquerade mas-querade ball, and finished with the ballet of Gililco Galilei. Sunday the the l'.Uh we had a sacramental meeting meet-ing in the morning and tho afternoon wo drove to the extensive ruins of the palaces of the Ceasars. At 7 p.m. president Albert Carring-tou Carring-tou arrived, to join our party, and he brouirht Ui our letters from home up to December 25th, and our Semi-Weeklies Semi-Weeklies of December 21st and i5:t. Monday the 20th, we visited the l'an-theou,tho l'an-theou,tho Capitoline Hall and Museum of Sculpture, tho equestrian Irozc statueiot Marcus Aureiius.the Marine; -tine prison, where Peter and Paul are said to hive been imprisoned, the v.;ue Janus tjuadritons, the Goldsmith's Arch, ruins of the temple of Nc-ta, of the temple ot Fortuna i'irilis.ttie house of Kienzi, the theatre of MarccMus.thc column of Pius Antoninus, the Basilica oi the St. Paul, which is ono uf the finest churches ol'Kome, the Chamber of Deputies, which was in session, ani the Church of San;a Maria Sopri Minerva, Sunday, the 21 ?t, we went ; to the Siitine Chapel in the Vatican, with Michael AdjcIo's celebratr-d j painting of "I he List Judzraont"' and j the "Logie Mid Stan-;'' of Kiphae1. 1 He then went through .Le gieuest partj of the Vatican picture gallery 1 and the lower porti-ia of St- PctcrV 1 Church. In the afternoon we vinied the cemetery of the Capu-hines, wllt-re the fkuits at:d k!.'!-t'i2- of ab-JUt 5,4' M memoers ot that order, wLo had and. were phtd up in commas, piiiaUT- and wad and c liing ornament- U every concroiva;'j h..pe, m a eutttrrani iu vault. It was a vtry ptcu :ar .-ij!.; indeed. Then we viswd the Church I of St. Caria cern Abgea, ihs.tath; ot j DiocleUAa, the Baiac of it. Cemeat 1 of the 12th century, below that the livd ica i t Clement of the 4th century, cen-tury, with well pre.-ervcd frecoe. which has only been di.-covered several years ago; and below that the house oi .t Clement ai;d the temple of Melhrap. We al eai.ed the s-me day on the A men an minister. Mr. Georjje P. Mar-h; but as we did Dot find him id. we lelt our card with the secretary of IL'iiiior. Wedoetiay, the 2;j, we visi- , : ted the ehuren til. Agu-tino, the piaz- 1 zi i-quaie) Navona, which is the cite i of tLe cueui Airoualis, the eta'.ue of I'a quin, the artiiei pilace, a very largo building, erected of stones taken fjoui tho coiUaseuui, the guard houe of the 7th cohort of tho Yigilcs, the church of Chrysogono, Monte Cavallo, wuh two large bronze statues of horse.-1, and en the same Bquare tho Quirinal i paLce, a number of Very tlegautly fur- ' nished rooms, now occupied by king Victor Emanuel. In the afternoon we drove five mile out of I be city on the once celebrated Apian way, which leads from Home to Biiudi-'. 'lhe road is lined on Lo;h sides with tombs of celebrated ancient Itotuans, some of them very large, and among the rest tho tumuli of the Haratlii and Curiat-tU; Curiat-tU; also the ruins of the largo villa of the QuintiLii; tho Ustrinum, a place surrounded with walls, where- tho dead bodies were burned in former times and the a.-heB were put in vaes for burial; thetoe we drove to the world-renowned world-renowned catacombs of Calixtus, the old circus of Bomulus, the arch of Prusus, tho Columbaria, where the vatcs, containing the aahes of burnt bodies wero preserved in tho walls of tho building in riches, similar to pigeon pig-eon holes on a largo scale, This tit--isbed another day's work. On Thursday, Thurs-day, the li.id, wo drove to St. Peters, and ascended the dome, visited tho Vatican sculpture gallery, tho ruins of tho baths of Caraealla, covering 40 crcs of ground, the church St. Ste-1 Ste-1 funo Batonda, containing on its wall paintings of all imaginable kinds of martyrdom, to which the early Chrie-1 Chrie-1 tiuns had been subjected. From there wo went to the ruins of tho golden ' houio of Nero, which contains some 1 very well preserved frescoes; to the 1 baths of Titus on tho Escuiino Hill, ) i c: ,i..i aim uuiaueu our programme wuu itie church of St. Pietro, in Ninculi, which contains a beautiful white marble statue of Moses, by the celebrated Michael Aogclf. Saturday, the 25th, wo intend to leavo for Naples, where we stay till the 30th, thence wc go to Hrindisi, where wo take steamer for Corfu, and thence on tho 1st of February Feb-ruary we go aboard tho Lloyd steamer for Alexandria. All of the party aro in usual health. Very trnly yours, . Paul A. 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