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Dis. THROUGH ITALY. 143
June clouded with perpetual vapors, turns his re-
collection with complacency to the pure azure
that canopies Rome and Naples, and contem-
plates in thought the splendid tints that -adorn the
vernal skies of Italy.
Largior hie campos Either et lufeine vestit
Purpureo,
SCENERY
II. Nothing is more pleasing to an eye accus-
tomed to contemplate prospects through the me-
dium of a vaporous sky, than the extreme purity
of the atmosphere, the consequent brightness of
the light and the distinct appearance of remote
objects. A serene sky takes off much of the
horrors of a desert, and communicates a smile to
barren sands and shapeless rocks; what then must
be its effects upon the face of a region, in which
nature seems to have collected all her means of
ornament, all her arts of pleasing; plains fertile
and extensive, varied with gentle swells and bold
elevations; mountains of every shape outline and
degree, at different distances, but always in view,
presenting here their shaggy declivities darkened
with woods, and there a long line of brown rug-
ged precipices; now lifting- to the skies a head of
June clouded with perpetual vapors, turns his re-
collection with complacency to the pure azure
that canopies Rome and Naples, and contem-
plates in thought the splendid tints that -adorn the
vernal skies of Italy.
Largior hie campos Either et lufeine vestit
Purpureo,
SCENERY
II. Nothing is more pleasing to an eye accus-
tomed to contemplate prospects through the me-
dium of a vaporous sky, than the extreme purity
of the atmosphere, the consequent brightness of
the light and the distinct appearance of remote
objects. A serene sky takes off much of the
horrors of a desert, and communicates a smile to
barren sands and shapeless rocks; what then must
be its effects upon the face of a region, in which
nature seems to have collected all her means of
ornament, all her arts of pleasing; plains fertile
and extensive, varied with gentle swells and bold
elevations; mountains of every shape outline and
degree, at different distances, but always in view,
presenting here their shaggy declivities darkened
with woods, and there a long line of brown rug-
ged precipices; now lifting- to the skies a head of