Identifier: touraroundworldb01mcca (find matches)
Title: A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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llo dell Ovo, on a rock which pro-jects into the sea. Between the Palazzo Reale and the sea aresituated the arsenal and the cannon-foundry. St. Elmo has ex-tensive subterranean bomb-proof works. Naples has threeports: Porto Piccolo, the last remnant of the ancient port ofPalacopolis, is now, however, only adapted for boats; the PortoGrande, formed by Charles II. of Anjou in 1302 ; Porto Militaire,a new harbor for ships of the royal navy commenced in 1826 byFrancis I., and still in progress. A few modernized gates, to-gether with the castles above mentioned, are all that remain ofthe mediaeval fortifications. Naples has three hundred churches. Some of them are re-markable for their architecture and works of art. They containa collection of tombs which surpass those to be found in anyother city of Italy. Upon returning to the Vandalia, General Grant gave ordersfor an early start the next morning on a visit to Mount Vesuvius. On the morning of the 18th, the military and civil authorities
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(253) 254 AROUND THE WORLD. came on board the Vandalia to pay their respects to GeneralGrant, and thus delayed the party an hour or two beyond thetime appointed for starting. It was not until ten oclock that astart was made. The party consisted of General and Mrs.Grant and their companions, and several officers of the Van-dalia. We quote the following account of the excursion fromMr. John Russell Youngs letter to the New York Herald: It was ten before we were under way, the General and partyin the advance, with our courier, whom we have called the Mar-quis, on the box, and Mrs. Grants maid bringing up the rear.We drove all the way. You will understand our route when Iremind you that the Bay of Naples is something like a horse-shoe. On one side of the shoe is the city, on the other is Vesu-vius. Therefore to reach the mountain we have to drive aroundthe upper circle of the shoe. The shores of this bay are sopopulous that our route seemed to be one continuous town. Weonly knew that we w

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