In entrance, the smooth sea--a extensive mosaic of a lot of shades the lofty islands swimming in a dreamy haze in the distance at our conclusion of the city the stately double peak of Vesuvius, and its robust black ribs and seams of lava stretching down to the limitless amount campagna--a green carpet that enchants the eye and prospects it on and on, past clusters of trees, and isolated residences, and snowy villages, till it shreds out in a.