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13 October 1869 — Naples | |
Wednesday. 13th [October 1869]. We got home a little earlier than usual & went by at ½ past 9 train to Pompei. At the station we were joined by Alessandro Castellani and Mr Bonham & Fiorelli. When we got to Pompei we had to pay 1 f. each entrance & there a guide was given us, wh is the rule established by Fiorelli, and the guides are not allowed to take any money. We walked about up & down the silent paved streets which even now have the grooves in the stones made by the chariot wheels. We wandered in & out of the painted houses. The day was quite hot & most pleasant. Fiorelli explained every thing to us & pointed out the latest excavations & discoveries. He took us to see the skeletons & casts of bodies and also to the Archeological school wh he has raised there & abt 1 o’cl: we went to the “scavi” where we had chairs & watched the excavations of a room. We were rather unfortunate in seeing hardly anything found only some broken amphoræ, the hinges & lock of the door & in the middle close to the wall a small set of surgical instruments. This over we opened our basket of provisions & sat in an adjacent house to eat our luncheon. After luncheon I got into a chaise à porteur & was carried about, the excavations being so extensive I found it rather too much walking all day. We went down to the tombs wh is most curious & reminds one oddly of the French way of burying at Père la Chaise. We went afterwards to the temple of Jupiter where we sat & rested, the gentlemen smoking & I knitted; we thence went to the station & had to wait an hour there for the ½ past 5 train. We got back to the Hotel de Russie at Naples abt 6 & dined at ½ past & Castellani dined with us. | |
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