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Ch. IX.
THROUGH ITALY.
•319
the middle of orchards and thickets, forming- al-
together a view unusually rich and delightful.
Beyond St. Agatha the country becomes more
hilly and is shaded with thicker and larger woods.
A romantic dell with a streamlet tumbling
through it, forms a pretty diversity in the view.
We were now engaged in the defiles of Mount
Massicus, which communicate with those of the
Callicula, a mountain covered with forests and
crowned with Calvi, the ancient Cates. From
these defiles we emerged by a road cut through
the rock above Francolisi, and as we looked down
we beheld the plains of Campania spread before
us, bordered by the Apennines, with the craggy
point of Ischia towering to the sky on one side,
and in the centre Iresavius,,calmly lifting his dou-
ble summit wreathed with smoke. Evening now
far advanced, shed a purple tint over the sides
and the summits of the mountains, that gave at
once a softness and a richness to the picture, and
contrasted finely with the darkness of the plains
below, and the light colors of a few thin clouds
flitting above.
From Francolisi we traversed the Falernus
Ager, which is the tract enclosed between the
sea, Mount, Massicus, Callicula., and the river
Vulturnus ; a territory so much celebrated by the
ancient poets, and so well known to the modern
THROUGH ITALY.
•319
the middle of orchards and thickets, forming- al-
together a view unusually rich and delightful.
Beyond St. Agatha the country becomes more
hilly and is shaded with thicker and larger woods.
A romantic dell with a streamlet tumbling
through it, forms a pretty diversity in the view.
We were now engaged in the defiles of Mount
Massicus, which communicate with those of the
Callicula, a mountain covered with forests and
crowned with Calvi, the ancient Cates. From
these defiles we emerged by a road cut through
the rock above Francolisi, and as we looked down
we beheld the plains of Campania spread before
us, bordered by the Apennines, with the craggy
point of Ischia towering to the sky on one side,
and in the centre Iresavius,,calmly lifting his dou-
ble summit wreathed with smoke. Evening now
far advanced, shed a purple tint over the sides
and the summits of the mountains, that gave at
once a softness and a richness to the picture, and
contrasted finely with the darkness of the plains
below, and the light colors of a few thin clouds
flitting above.
From Francolisi we traversed the Falernus
Ager, which is the tract enclosed between the
sea, Mount, Massicus, Callicula., and the river
Vulturnus ; a territory so much celebrated by the
ancient poets, and so well known to the modern