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RECEPTION AT NAPLES. 
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command, and a festive representation at the Bellini Theatre.— 
Thursday the 19th, Dr. Franz Kuhn, arrived from Vienna, 
deputed by the Geographical Society there to welcome us. 
Excursion in company with Professor Palmieri and the Com¬ 
mittee to Vesuvius, which at the time of our visit was emitting 
thick columns of smoke, was pouring out a stream of lava, and 
casting out masses of glowing stone. We ascended the border 
of the crater, not without inconvenience from the heat of the 
half-solidified lava streams over which we walked, from the 
gases escaping from the crater, and from the red-hot stones 
flung out of it. The new railway, not then ready, was inspected, 
and the observatory visited. We dined with the Committee at 
the hotel.^—Friday the 20th, journey to Borne, where the 
members of the Expedition arrived at 2 P.M., and were, in the 
same way as at Naples, received in a festive manner by the 
Syndic of the city, Prince Buspoli, president and director of 
the Geographical Society, by members of the University, 
the Scandinavian Union, &c. Carriages met the Swedish 
guests, in which they were taken past the Swedish-Norwegian 
minister’s hotel, decked with innumerable flags, to Albergo di 
Boma in the Corso, where a splendid suite of apartments, along 
with equipages, was placed at the disposal of the Expedition. 
In the evening we dined with the Swedish minister, and were 
afterwards received by Prince Pallavicini at his magnificent 
palace.—Saturday the 21st, visit to the Chamber of Deputies, 
private excursions, dinner given by the Duke Nicolas of 
Leuchtenberg, to Nordenskidld and Nordquist.—Sunday the 
22nd, public meeting of the Geograpical Society, at which its 
grand gold medal was presented to Nordenskiold. In the 
evening a grand dinner, given by the Geographical Society, in 
the Continental Hotel. Among the toasts which were drunk 
may be mentioned one to the King of Sweden and Norway, 
proposed in a very warm and eloquent speech by the Premier, 
Cairoli ; to Nordenskiold, by Prince Teano; to Palander, by 
