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. I 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 CamjDO 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 

 can 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 Gaeteno Savi, 1769-1844. 



