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Title: Eight journeys abroad
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosengarten, Mary D. Richardson, 1846-1913 Rosengarten, Frank H
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Algeria -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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h love for you all, and alwayswishing you were here, where you would have every comfortand enjoy the society of lots of nice men. Most affectionately, M. D. R. Imperial Hotel, Sorrento,Tues., March 6th, 1906.Dear Frank, I wonder if you remembered that yesterday was our 33rdwedding anniversary and missed me a little! I am in a con-tinual state of disappointment that you are not with us.Yesterday was the most perfect day imaginable. Blue skyand sea and warm and the views showed up to perfection. 527 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD As I had to spend the morning at Cooks getting my ticketsfor Sicily, and doing a little shopping, I felt we must accom-plish something in the afternoon, so I got a good comfortablecarriage at the Hotel and started for the Virgil side of Naples,Pozzuoli, Cape Misense and Baias. When I was here threeyears ago they told me the antique grotto at Posilipo wasclosed, but we drove through it, turning to the left from thenew grotto and finding all my old memories revived. It is
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GROTTO OF POSILIPO, NAPLES much higher and narrower than the new one and very impres-sive. Beyond it you see real Italian life, i. e., people living,moving and having their being in the street, along with pigs,donkeys and chickens. We went up to Solfatara and saw the sand boiling andthe steam was pouring out of innumerable crevices. Thetown of Pozzuoli, with its old port of Caligula, and its villas of Cicero and Sallust, &c., &c., and interesting Roman remains, 528 ITALY gateways, walls, &c., is delightful—such air, and the deliciousspring smell is in everything, wild sweet alyssum, yellow andpink daisies, thyme and lots of sweet flowers. We drove onto Baise and past the Lucrene Lake to Lake Avemus, with allits legends and went into the grotto of the Cumsean Sybil,which is now full of water, and the men carried us across ontheir backs. Part of the original frescoes and mosaics remain and thereare wonderfully large Roman bricks in the walls. We had not

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