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 ROLLO IN NAPLES,

 BY

 JACOB ABBOTT.


 BOSTON:

 PUBLISHED BY TAGGARD AND THOMPSON.

 M DCCC LXIV.




 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by

 JACOB ABBOTT,

 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
 Massachusetts.

 ELECTROTYPED AT THE
 BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

 RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

 PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON.


 [Illustration: THE ORANGE GARDEN.--See page 218.]

 [Illustration: ROLLO'S TOUR IN EUROPE.
 TAGGARD & THOMPSON. Publishers--Boston.]




 ROLLO'S TOUR IN EUROPE.


 ORDER OF THE VOLUMES

 ROLLO ON THE ATLANTIC.
 ROLLO IN PARIS.
 ROLLO IN SWITZERLAND.
 ROLLO IN LONDON.
 ROLLO ON THE RHINE.
 ROLLO IN SCOTLAND.
 ROLLO IN GENEVA.
 ROLLO IN HOLLAND.
 ROLLO IN NAPLES.
 ROLLO IN ROME.


 PRINCIPAL PERSONS OF THE STORY.

 ROLLO; twelve years of age.
 MR. and MRS. HOLIDAY; Rollo's father and mother, travelling in Europe.
 THANNY; Rollo's younger brother.
 JANE; Rollo's cousin, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Holiday.
 MR. GEORGE; a young gentleman, Rollo's uncle.




 CONTENTS.


 CHAPTER                                           PAGE

    I.--THE VETTURINO,                              13
   II.--CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS,                   37
  III.--THE JOURNEY,                                57
   IV.--SITUATION OF NAPLES,                        76
    V.--PLANNING THE ASCENSION,                     91
   VI.--GOING UP,                                  106
  VII.--THE SUMMIT,                                131
 VIII.--POMPEII,                                   157
   IX.--THE MUSEUM,                                174
    X.--THE STREETS,                               188
   XI.--AN EXCURSION,                              194
  XII.--THE ORANGE GARDENS,                        213




 ENGRAVINGS.


                                                   PAGE

 THE ORANGE GARDEN,                      (Frontispiece.)
 TRAVELLING IN ITALY,                               11
 A CHURCH AT FLORENCE,                              23
 READING THE ARTICLES,                              55
 EMBLEMS ON THE CROSS,                              63
 ASCENDING THE MOUNTAINS,                           67
 SITUATION OF NAPLES,                               77
 VIEW THROUGH THE GLASS,                            87
 CALASH COMING INTO NAPLES,                        111
 THE ASCENT,                                       127
 VIEW OF THE CRATER,                               137
 COMING DOWN,                                      153
 THE MOSAIC,                                       183
 THE PUBLIC GARDENS,                               197


[Illustration: TRAVELLING IN ITALY.]




ROLLO IN NAPLES.

CHAPTER I.

THE VETTURINO.


If ever you make a journey into Italy, there is one thing that you will
like very much indeed; and that is the mode of travelling that prevails
in that country. There are very few railroads there; and though there
are stage coaches on all the principal routes, comparatively few people,
except the inhabitants of the country, travel in them. Almost all who
come from foreign lands to make journeys in Italy for pleasure, take
what is called a _vetturino_.

There is no English word for _vetturino_, because where the English
language is spoken, there is no such thing. The word comes from the
Italian word _vettura_, which means a travelling carriage, and it
denotes the man that owns the carriage, and drives it wherever the party
that employs him wishes to go. Thus there is somewhat the same relation
between the Italian words _vettura_ and _vetturino_ that there is
between the English words _chariot_ and _charioteer_.

The Italian _vetturino_, then, in the simplest English phrase that will
express it, is a _travelling carriage man_; that is, he is a man who
keeps a carriage and a team of horses, in order to take parties of
travellers with them on long journeys, wherever they wish to go. Our
word _coachman_ does not express the idea at all. A coachman is a man
employed by the owner of a carriage simply to drive it; whereas the
vetturino is the proprietor of his establishment; and though he
generally drives it himself, still the driving is only a small part of
his business. He might employ another man to go with him and drive, but
