CHAPTER XXXV.

NAPLES, CAPRI, VESUVIUS, AMALFI, AND POMPEII.

Beauty and Filth.--Danger and Indifference.--Street Scenes in Naples.--The Blue Grotto of Capri.--The Ascent of Vesuvius.--A Stream of Liquid Fire.--Hard Climbing Through Cinders.--Driven Back from the Crater by Sulphur Fumes.--The Most Beautiful Drive in the World.--The Loveliness of Amalfi.--The Ruins of Pompeii.--Story of the Catastrophe.--The Work of Exhumation.--The Return Voyage by Gibraltar and the Azores.--There is no Place Like Home, 346

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Westminster Abbey and Jerusalem Chamber, _Frontispiece._

The House of Parliament, London, 56

Clare College and King's Chapel, Cambridge, 62

Sir Walter Scott's Seat in Melrose Abbey, 69

Drill of Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle, 88

Princes Street, Edinburgh, 101

Monument to Margaret Wilson, Stirling, 108

Statue of Flora Macdonald, Inverness, 125

Magdalen College, Oxford, 150

Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey, 164

A Stranger in Leyden, 223

The Lion of Lucerne, 242

The Doge's Palace, Venice, 247

The Bambino, 276

Scala Santa, Rome, 279

Kings of England and Italy in Rome, 319

Panorama of Naples, 346

A Windy Day on Mount Vesuvius, 350

On the Road to Amalfi, 352

Colonnade of Hotel Cappuccini, 354

Pompeii, 357

A YEAR IN EUROPE.