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i4 A TOUR THROUGH
Micenum and Baia, is covered with innu-
merable monuments of Roman magnifi-
cence. But, alas! how are the mighty
fallen! This delightful coastj once the
garden of all Italy, and inhabited only by
the rich, the gay, and luxurious, is now
abandoned to the poorest and most mise-
rable of mortals. Perhaps, there is no
spot on the globe, that has undergone so
thorough a change; or that can exhibit so
striking a pi&ure of the vanity of human
grandeur. Those very walls that once
lodged a Cseiar, a Lucullus, an Anthony,
the richest and most voluptuous of man-
kind ; are now occupied by the very mean-
est and most indigent wretches on earth,
who are a&ually starving for want in those
very apartments that were the scenes of the
greatest luxury. There we are told that
suppers were frequently given, that coil
fifty thousand pounds; and some that even
amounted to double that sum.
The
Micenum and Baia, is covered with innu-
merable monuments of Roman magnifi-
cence. But, alas! how are the mighty
fallen! This delightful coastj once the
garden of all Italy, and inhabited only by
the rich, the gay, and luxurious, is now
abandoned to the poorest and most mise-
rable of mortals. Perhaps, there is no
spot on the globe, that has undergone so
thorough a change; or that can exhibit so
striking a pi&ure of the vanity of human
grandeur. Those very walls that once
lodged a Cseiar, a Lucullus, an Anthony,
the richest and most voluptuous of man-
kind ; are now occupied by the very mean-
est and most indigent wretches on earth,
who are a&ually starving for want in those
very apartments that were the scenes of the
greatest luxury. There we are told that
suppers were frequently given, that coil
fifty thousand pounds; and some that even
amounted to double that sum.
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