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ing country, are driven backward and forward each night and 

 morning through the streets, in order that they may be milked 

 before the eyes of milk consumers, who are here evidently anti- 

 adulterationists, and do not believe that water added to the natural 

 product improves the quality. Here and there, in sheltered nogks, 

 public writers may be seen, writing out epistles for those who are 

 unable to write for themselves (and they comprise by far the 

 larger portion of the community). 



A hand-organ playing on every block explains to an American 

 where all the hand-organ players in America come from, and 

 various other novel sights and sounds greet one at every turn. 

 Beautiful shops for the sale, of tortoise-shell, lava, and coral abound, 

 for JSTaples is the great depot for these articles ; and glove manu- 

 factories, where are manufactured most of the cheaper brands of 

 " Paris kid gloves," are everywhere to be seen. The streets are 

 paved with large blocks of lava from Yesuvius, which just around 

 the point of the bay, some eight or ten miles off, rears its massive 

 cone several thousand feet high, and from the crater at the top 

 continually sends forth a column of steam and smoke, which is vejy 

 suggestive of the mass of fire beneath. On the other side, at the 

 foot of' the mountain, lies Pompeii, with its streets and houses 

 just as they were 1,800 years ago, when they were covered twenty 

 feet deep with a mass of stones and ashes from Yesuvius. It has 

 gradually been excavated during the last century, until now nearly 

 the whole city is uncovered and exposed to view. The remains 

 which have been found furnish material for a most interesting 

 study of the habits of the people of that day and generation. In 

 the museum at Naples are preserved the charred remains of fruits 

 and nuts, and an assortment of different grains and vegetables, 

 of the same varieties and species as are used to this day ; even 

 loaves of bread, which still perfectly preserve their form, are here 

 to be seen. A bottle is also exhibited containing olive oil in a 

 tolerable state of preservation, besides an immense assortment of 

 household utensils, works of art, etc. 



But I find I am describing everything in and around Naples 

 excepting the manufacture of macaroni, the process of which is 

 as follows: The hardest and flintiest varieties of wheat are 

 selected, first washed, and then thoroughly dried in the sun. This 



