In entrance, the sleek sea--a extensive mosaic of numerous shades the lofty islands swimming in a dreamy haze in the length at our end of the town the stately double peak of Vesuvius, and its potent black ribs and seams of lava stretching down to the limitless amount campagna--a green carpet that enchants the eye and prospects it on and on, previous clusters of trees, and isolated houses, and snowy villages, right until it shreds out in a fringe.