Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

Ch. IV. THROUGH ITALY. 151
the poet, are all combined in the garden of Italy,
the happy Campania*,
But the scenery was now fading away with the
light, and a deep azure sky bespangled with stars,
all sparkling with a brilliancy unusual to our more
troubled atmosphere, guided us on our way.
Lighted by their beams we crossed the Liris,
Qui fontc quieto
Dissimulat cur&um ac nullo mutabilis imbri,
Perstringit tacitas gemmanti gurgite ripas.
Sil. iv. 350.
We just distinguished the black masses of Min-
turnce on its banks, with the arches of its ruined
aqueduct, and at a late hour in the evening we
entered Mola.
The bay of Gaieta, though seen before, had

* We had intended to return by the inland road, and visit
the great Parent abbey of the Benedictine Order situated on
the summit of Monte Cassino; Venafrum, so celebrated for
its olives ; Arpinum and the Fibrenus ; Sora, Anagnia, and
Preneste. But the state of the country, which had not yet
recovered from the convulsions of an invasion, rendered such
a journey imprudent at the moment, and on the representa-
tions of some friends, we reluctantly gave up our projected
route.