[86] Lady Elizabeth Hervey, Second Wife Of William, Fifth Duke Of Devonshire (1809); Died March, 1824.

- ED.

[87] A singular slip of the pen; Frye must have known that the equestrian statue is a Roman work - ED.

[88] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, xxxiii, 2, 4. - ED.

[89] See Lucian, Imag., iv; Amores, xv, xvi. - ED.

[90] Major Frye's description is incorrect in many particulars, on which it seemed unnecessary to draw attention. - ED.

[91] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, XI, 67, 6.

[92] That colossal marble statue was given to the Duke of Wellington by Louis XVIII, and is still to be seen in London, at Apsley House. - ED.

CHAPTER XI

From Rome to Naples - Albano - Velletri - The Marshes - Terracina - Mola di Gaeta - Capua - The streets of Naples - Monuments and Museums - Visit to Pompeii and ascent to Vesuvius - Dangerous ventures - Puzzuoli and Baiae - Theatres at Naples - Pulcinello - Return to Rome - Tivoli.

I started from Rome on the 26th September; in the same vettura I found an intelligent young Frenchman of the name of R - - D - - , a magistrate in Corsica, who was travelling in Italy for his amusement. There were besides a Roman lawyer and not a very bright one by the bye; and a fat woman who was going to Naples to visit her lover, a Captain in the Austrian service, a large body of Austrian troops being still at Naples. We issued from Rome by the Porta Latina and reached Albano (the ancient Alba) sixteen miles distant at twelve o'clock. We reposed there two hours which gave me an opportunity of visiting the Villa Doria where there are magnificent gardens.

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