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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61893#0140
CLASSICAL TOUR
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branch and spreading in garlands from tree to
tree. The devastation of Avar had not a little
disfigured this scenery, by stripping several villas,
levelling many a grove, and rooting up whole
rows of vines and mulberry trees. But the hand
of industry had already begun to repair these ra-
vages, and to restore to the neighboring hills and
fields their beauty and fertility.
The interior of the town is worthy of its situ-
ation. It is divided into two unequal parts by
the Adige, which sweeps through it in a bold
curve, and forms a peninsula, within which the
whole of the ancient, and the greater part of the
modern city, is enclosed. The river is wide and
rapid; the streets, as in almost all continental
towns, are narrower than our’s, but long, strait,
well built, and frequently presenting in the form
of the doors, and windows, and in the ornaments
of their cases, fine proportions, and beautiful
workmanship.
But besides these advantages which Verona
enjoys in common with many other towns, it can
boast of possessing one of the noblest monuments
of Roman magnificence now existing; I mean
its amphitheatre, inferior in size, but equal in
materials and in solidity to the Coliseum. Al-
most immediately upon our arrival, we hastened
Ch. IL
112
branch and spreading in garlands from tree to
tree. The devastation of Avar had not a little
disfigured this scenery, by stripping several villas,
levelling many a grove, and rooting up whole
rows of vines and mulberry trees. But the hand
of industry had already begun to repair these ra-
vages, and to restore to the neighboring hills and
fields their beauty and fertility.
The interior of the town is worthy of its situ-
ation. It is divided into two unequal parts by
the Adige, which sweeps through it in a bold
curve, and forms a peninsula, within which the
whole of the ancient, and the greater part of the
modern city, is enclosed. The river is wide and
rapid; the streets, as in almost all continental
towns, are narrower than our’s, but long, strait,
well built, and frequently presenting in the form
of the doors, and windows, and in the ornaments
of their cases, fine proportions, and beautiful
workmanship.
But besides these advantages which Verona
enjoys in common with many other towns, it can
boast of possessing one of the noblest monuments
of Roman magnificence now existing; I mean
its amphitheatre, inferior in size, but equal in
materials and in solidity to the Coliseum. Al-
most immediately upon our arrival, we hastened