Chapter XIV: Naples, 325 (13)

Riviera, The, general aspect, 145;
origin of name, 146;
extent, and climate, 147;
the Estérel, Agay, Golfe de la Napoule, 148;
Ste. Marguerite, and St. Honorat, 149;
Cannes, 150-154;
Monaco, 153;
Monte Carlo, 155;
Mentone, 155, 158;
Roquebrune, 156, 157;
Bordighera, and San Remo, 158;
Alassio and Savona, 159

Riviera di Levante, 146, 185

Riviera di Ponento, 146, 185

Rodney, Lord, and the siege of Gibraltar, 18

Roger II., 314

Rogers, Samuel, on Andrea Doria, 173

Romans, The, at Marseilles, 97, 110;
at Genoa, 162;
at Nicæa, 128;
at Malaga, 46

Ronda, Mountains of, 17

Rooke, Sir George, and the siege of Gibraltar, 21

Roquebrune, 156;
quaint story connected with, 156

Rose, The Chevalier, and the plague of Marseilles, 113

Roses of the Riviera, 145

Rosetta, 253;
reputed birthplace of Haroun Al Rashid, 256;
English expedition of 1807, 256;
archælogical discoveries, 258

Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 14, 20, 23

Rostang, 121

Rusellæ, 211

Ruskin, Professor, on St. Mark's, Venice, 223, 224

S

_Sacro catino_, The, at Genoa, 181

Sahel Mountains, The, 30

Sais, 263

Salerno, temples at, 349

Salles, De, 121

Salmun, 293

Salvian, at St. Honorat, 150

San Remo, 131, 158, 159

San Roque, 23

San Salvador, 291

Santa Croce, Cape, 303

Santa Marinella, 214

Santa Severa, 214

Saracens, at Marseilles, 109;
at Genoa, 163;
at Civita Vecchia, 212

Sarcophagus of Ashmunazar, King of Sidon, at Girgenti, 308

Savona, 159

Savoy, Counts of, and Nice, 129

Scoglio Marfo, 271

Scylla and Charybdis, 295

Sebta, or Septem, derivation of "Ceuta," 25

Segesta, 319;
temples at, 320

Selinunto, 319;
ancient temples at, 320

Senglea, 289

Serapeum, The, at Alexandria, 248

Serapis, Temple of, 236

Seravezza, Marble quarries at, and Michael Angelo, 197

Serpentine at Spezzia, 188

Shakespeare, allusion to the Nile, 260

Sheba, Queen of, and the _sacro catino_ in the cathedral of Genoa, 181

Shelley, last days at Lerici, and death, 192, 193

Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, and the siege of Gibraltar, 21

Sicily, appearance from the sea, 295;
Messina, 296, 297;
Taormina, 297, 298;
Etna, and Aci Reale, 299, 300;
Ortygia, 303;
Syracuse, 303;
Girgenti, 307;
Palermo, 312-318;
San Guiliane, 318;
Selinunto, 318;
Monte Pellegrino, 322

Siege of Gibraltar, 17-20

Sierra of the Snows, The, 17

Simos and Protis, supposed founders of Marseilles, 94

Smollett, Tobias, Grave of, 202

Snails as an article of diet, 330

Soldiers at Gibraltar, 11

Sorrento, 130, 345;
and Tasso, 346

Sovana, 211

Spain, Rock of Calpe, 2;
landing of first Berber Sheikh, 3;
antiquity of the Moorish Castle, Gibraltar, 15;
driven from Gibraltar, 19;
acquires Ceuta, 25;
and Columbus, 178;
the most Catholic country in the world, 74;
great number of holidays, 87;
Caballero, lady novelist, 88;
piquancy of the women, 91;
unsettled condition of, 92

Spanish, The, at Gibraltar, 11

Spanish Succession, War of the, 22

Spezzia, Scenery around, 160;
arsenal of, 168;
exquisite scenery and remarkable situation, 187;
oranges at, 189;
villages around, 190;
harbor and men-of-war, 191;
Bay of, 192

Stanfield's painting of Vico, 346

Statuary, English, its inferior character, 13

Stone, Egyptian, with inscription, at Rosetta, 257

Strabo, 247

Stromboli, 317

Suez Canal, 96, 123;
construction by M. de Lesseps, a dream realized, 264

Syracuse, interest and beauty of, 303

T

Taggia, 158

Talamone, 211

Tangier, Bay of, 4;
distant view and features of the town of, 5;
expedition of Edward, son of King John of Portugal, against, 25

Tanis, Ruins of (Zoan of the Old Testament), 263

Taormina, 297;
elevation of, 298;
beautiful prospect and ruins of Greek theater, 299

Tarascon, 96

Tarif Ibn Malek, first Berber sheikh who landed in Spain, 3

Tarifa, The Pharos of, 3;
the arms, town, and history of, 4

Tarquinii, Ruins of, 212

Tasso and Sorrento, 346

Tejada, Sierra, 58

Teneriffe, 296

Termini, 312

_Terral_, The, of Malaga, 43

Tête de Chien, 153

Thackeray and _bouillabaisse_, 104

Theodore, St., statue at Venice, 226

Thiers, M., 122

Tiber, The, 215

Tintoret, 175

Titian, 175

Torcello, the ancient Altinum, 231

Torre dell' Annunziata, Manufacture of macaroni at, 345

Trajan, founder of Civita Vecchia, 216

Tramontana, The, of the Riviera, 43

Trapani, 318

Trevelez, 59

Trinacria, 318

Turbia, The, 103

Turks, at Gibraltar, 10

Tuscan coast (_see_ Lerici, Sarzana, Carrara, Pisa, Leghorn, Elba,
Civita Vecchia, etc.).

U

University of Barcelona, 80;
of Velletta, 286;
of Messina, 297

Urban V., Pope, and the church of St. Victor, Marseilles, 116

V

Valletta, 267;
fortress, buildings, population, and abundance of labor, 274, 275;
the Port, 275;
military station, and peculiar construction, 276;
Strada Reale, 278;
the people, and public buildings, 280;
the Knights, and various sieges, 284;
military hospital, 286;
the University and the prison, 286;
visit of Bonaparte, and the Strada Mezzodi, 287;
suburbs, 289;
Notabile and Hamrun, 290;
popularity of St. Paul, 293;
cathedrals, 293, 294

Vanderdussen, Rear-Admiral, and the siege of Gibraltar, 22

Vegetation at Marseilles, 104

Veii, 212

Venice, 95, 122;
contrasted with Genoa, 160;
rival of Genoa, 163;
the _palazzi_ of, 168;
a town unequalled in Europe, and general aspect, 219;
history, 221;
formation and shape, 222;
view of San Marco from the Piazza, 223-226;
date of erection, restoration, and interior of St. Mark's, 225;
view from the Molo, and the Grand Canal, 226, 227;
a funeral, 229;
islands sheltering it from the sea, 230-232

Ventimiglia, Fortifications of, 157

Venus, Temple of, shrine at Eryx, 318

Venus Zephyrites, 252

Vesuvius, 161, 326

Viareggio, Recovery of Shelley's body at, 193, 198

Vico, 346

Victor, Marshal, dispersal of his army by Colonel Gough at Tarifa, 4

Villa Franca, 21;
treaty of, 129;
picturesqueness of, 141

Virgil, reference to the cunning of Ligurians, 161;
the Elysian Fields, 338

Visigoths, The, 109

Vittoriosa, 289

Vulcano, 317

W

Wade, Marshal, 13

War of the Spanish Succession, 22

Wauchope, General, at Rosetta, 256

Wellington, Monument at Gibraltar to, 13

Whittaker, Captain, and the siege of Gibraltar, 22

Women, of Genoa, 162;
restrictions at the Cathedral of Genoa against, 181;
of Spain, 92;
of Nice, 129;
their attractiveness at Malaga, 54;
of Naples, 328;
of Capri, 342

X

Xerxes, 94

Y

Young, Dr., and the Egyptian stone at Rosetta, 258

Z

Zerka, 273

FOOTNOTES:

[1] History of Modern Architecture.

[2] Dennis: "Cities of Etruria."

[3] Dennis: "Cities of Etruria," I., p. xxxii.

[4] Ruskin: "Stones of Venice."

[5] Alison's "History of Europe."

[6] Sir Theodore Martin.

[7] In Homeric times, as is shown by the Odyssey, the Nile was called [Greek: Aignptos], a name which was afterwards transferred to the country.