352 THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA 



taken to restore the region to healthfulness and fertility. 

 Schemes are now in contemplation to reclaim these 

 wastes to cultivation, and to repeople them with an in- 

 dustrious peasantry. While every lover of Italy will 

 rejoice over the successful accomplishment of such a 

 beneficent reform, those who have known the Cam- 

 pagna in the days of its desolation, and have found in 

 its weird loneliness and quiet beauty, in its monuments 

 and memories of the past, an inexpressible delight, will 

 perhaps be pardoned if they regretfully look back upon 

 another of the charms of Rome which shall then have 

 passed away. 





Glasgow: printed at the university press by robert maclehose and co. ltd. 



