194 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 
to Pisa in two hours at farthest, have two hours and 
a half there, and be returned again safe and sound be- 
fore two o'clock. This was easily accomplished ; the 
journey being made in less than two hours, I had the 
more time there, quite as much, indeed, as I wished. 
It is a great comfort to be able to leave a place the 
moment you have done with it, and so avoid being 
sated with it. I had a letter and a little parcel from 
Mirbel to deliver to old Savi,! the professor of botany 
in the university ; so I was dropped at the door of 
the university, once so famous, but now far from 
formidable. 1 found Savi, gave my letter, was in- 
troduced to his two sons, the one professor of nat- 
ural history, the other assistant professor of botany, 
who showed me through the museum, which was in- 
teresting, the botanic garden, which was not much; 
I then set out to see the four chief lions, the Duomo 
or cathedral, the Baptistery, the Campanile or famous 
leaning tower, and the Campo Santo, which all stand 
near each other and are soon dispatched. In fact they 
are the separate parts of a cathedral, the Campanile 
being, as the name denotes, the bell-tower, and the 
Campo Santo the burial-place. . . 
The vine in Tuscany is not kept close to the ground 
as in France, but is trained in arbors and festoons 
along the borders of wheat-fields, and when their 
leaves appear must add very much to the beauty of 
the country. One here could sit under the shade of 
his vine, which would be out of the question in France. 
But the boat is leaving the harbor. On the right we 
ean dimly discern the northern extremity of Corsica. 
Elba we shall pass in the night, and sometime in-the 
course of the morning be landed in Civita Vecchia. 
1 Gaetano Savi, 1769-1844. 
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