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up stream and its heavy length supported by
smaller skifis, while the rapidity of the current
sweeps the boat across the river by very pretty
practical illustration of what mahcmaticians call
I" the revolution Of force" The boat was laden
with casks of new wine, which in this stage
of its fermentation tastes very much like musty
new cider.


For many miles the road lay through low and
swampy grounds, over which it was easy to see
that the swelling Po, '' Rer EridGnus" often
exercised his rights of sovereignty and at length
mass of towers, and high buildings was seen
rising, like the turrited Cybele, from the waters,
and this was MANrUA.


The city is surrounded by fortifcations ram
parts behind ramparts, which make i, impregna-
bic except by famine or treachery. 1t was once
called Mantora la gloriosa" and was the seat
of the magnificent Duke Gonzagas, but Ovid
announces schief glory, when he says" Mantua
VIRGlLIo gaudet." Here was Virgil born, and
here has he placed his Tityrus, pa,un rccubans
sub tegmine fagi''


'Prepter aquan tardis inGens ubi hexibu, era,


Mncius, ct tensIa pr;eexit arundlue rpas'
The Mincius is still called the Minco, and still
wanders in slow windngs, and protects its
banks with the tender yeed," but its sedgy marshes
have no beauty except in poetry, and not SIN
gle vestige of antiquity remains in the city, ez-
cept the mere memory of the name Of Virgil
His statue, with countenance full OF serious
beauty, and wearing laurel crown, is seated
under Gothic canopy, in the wall of the Pa
lazSo della Ragione.


The only antiquities at Mantua are those fthe
Middle Ages, which traveller in Italy learns to
look on very contemptuously, for any thing less
than thousand or fifteen hundred years old seems
to him mere thing of yesterday, and he forgets
that in his own country house of hundred
years is an antique curiosity and stepped down