House & Garden 
from the sea. 
From here your 
view is most 
extensive. The 
carriage road is 
some seventy 
feet directly be¬ 
low you,and the 
bay is half a mile 
distant. To the 
right lies the 
white town, 
backed by the 
hill of San 
Michele, — al¬ 
though you 
know it under 
another name, 
when it was 
crowned by the temple you doubtless 
remember and when there were races around 
it on the broad circular road half way up 
its sides. Beyond this is the sea, blue even 
as it was in your day and sparkling with 
the same light, 
and still further 
beyond — some 
twenty miles— 
is Vesuvius with 
its p 1 u m e of 
smoke drifting 
off toward the 
faint blue Apen¬ 
nines on the 
horizon. 
To the left is 
a great wall of 
mountain cliff a 
half mile away, 
with the ruined 
castle of Kheyr- 
ed-din Barba- 
1 ossa on the 
northerly peak, and beyond, balancing Vesu¬ 
vius on the right, a half of Ischia shows. 
In front, is the broad expanse of the bay 
with white sails here and there, and across it 
are Naples, Pozzuoli and Baia, beloved of 
FROM THE TOWER TERRACE 
A Winter View looking Northeasterly over the Town ; Monte San M'.chele is beyond 
VILLA CASTELLO 
FROM THE FRONT TERRACE 
A Winter View, looking Westerly 
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