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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT IN NAPLES, IN 1847. The heat, and dust, and exhaustion of the day was over, and a brilliant moon, lighting up the beautiful gulf, tempted us out to the refreshment of its cool translucent waves. On the gigantic masses of lava that protect the light-house at the head of the Mole?hundreds of people of all classes, from the naked fisher-boy, with the image of his patron saint attached to a string roudd his neck, to the elegant and blas primate or mrchese, ? are loitering or lying about to enjoy the fresh breeze. There was a boatman bathing his pretty little frightened girl with his own hand?there a troop of frolicsome boys?swimming about and playing all sorts of tricks, surrounding the boats, and popping up their black dripping heads, blowing out water, like dolphins or youthful tritons?sometimes getting a stroke with an oar, and then taking revenge by splashing the water in abundance over the ladies and gentlemen that fill them, or giving loud shrill whistles to show their contempt of the rowers. Behind us lies the castle of St. Elmo, the high grey walls of the fortress clearly defined against the evening sky glowing in gold and crimson, which tinges also the white walls of the convent of St. Martino, and the olive groves, and the city, rising in terraces above the deep blue sea. We rowed round the mighty dam, which, when complete, is to form so secure an anchoring ground, and for which, enormous blocks of lava are brought from the quarries at Portici, and sunk in the sea; a heavy and fatiguing kind of work that is performed by galley-slaves. Towards the gay shore of St. Lucca are rowing-boats, full of women, to take a sea-bath, and carriages are driving along the quays towards the same point, with company hastening to drink the mineral waters. Now, f...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217690522
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 362
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217690521
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 644 gr


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