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Suburbs, advantageous Effect of their total Absence at Turin,
157.

Suddenness of a Catastrophe admirably impictured in the
Samson of Ludovico Caracci, 60.

SULLY, HOTEL DE, its luxuriant Decorations, and the Ro-.
mance of its Historical Reminiscences, 4.

SUPERGA, the, at Turin, superseded, as the Mausoleum of the
Sardinian Royal Family, by the Sacra San Michele, 157.
Superstitions, rural, their Relics, 311.

SUSA. The Monuments of Classic and Barbaric Antiquity
there; the picturesque Waters of the Dora Susina; the
green and mountainous Environs, with their Palatial, Baro-
nial, and Abbatic Piles; the first Night of Fever; 161–162.

T.

TABERNACLE of the Sacrament, at Ulm, very elaborate;
not equal to that of San Lorenz in Nuremberg, 290.
Tales:

THE MANDATE OF SCIPIO, 57.

THE RAUBRITTER AND THE VANE, 214.

THE CHATEAUX AND THEIR LORDS, 227.
JOSEPHINE and CHARLEMAGNE, 322.
THE GUILT OF GOLD, 333.

THE YOUNG BERNARDINE, 368.

THE STATE PRISONER, 372.

TAMIERS, romantic Situation of a Benedictine Monastery
near that place, 376.

Tapestry, the ghastly Animation of its antique Imagery stirred
by the Gusts, 257.

TARENTESE, a delightful Ramble through that Province,371.
TATTERSHALL CASTLE, the mellow Tinctures of Time on its
Brickwork, 105,

Tavern, the, and its Guests, 143.

Tea-table Miscellany, its Varieties, 222.

TEMPLES OF THE CROSS, constructed on the Imperial Basi-
licæ, 93.

TENIERS, DAVID, his Mansion of the Drey Dorm, and his
Quatrain thereon, 328.

Terraces, the Granite, of the Walhalla somewhat unsightly,
264.

Terrier, the little Scotch, lost, 351.

Terrors of the Durance, an old Distich thereon, 15.

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TEUTONIC BALLADS, illustrated in the antique Arras of the
Electoral College at Regensburg, 257.

THEATRE, the OLYMPIC, at Vicenza, the Grand Place at
Mechlin compared to it, 326.

THEATRES, the, of Pompeii, 32.

The superb Mosaics in the vaulted Tribuna on the exterior
of the Scala Santa, 73.

THE THREE MOORS at Augsburg; the superb Façade, the
Traditionary Chambers, and stirring Reminiscences of
that Palatial Hotel, 281.

The Throne in the Tomb, 321.

The Three Kings, that magnificent Hotel at Basle; an
Englishman's Criterion of its Excellence, 196.

The Triumph of Maximilian, a gorgeous Fresco by
Albrecht Durer, 249.

THRACIANS, the, their Paradox on Births and Deaths, 113.
Time, how measured in the Tale of the Talisman; and how
at the Hotel of the Giant at Coblenz, 298.

Time and Nature, their healing Assiduities counteracted by
Man, 127.

Tirade of Petrarch against Avignon, 16.

Titlepage, a curious one, to a Pamphlet of Travels, in the
Harleian Miscellany, 24.

TITUS, the Wilderness of Corridors, the delightful Frescoes,
and sumptuous Marble Fragments in his Baths, 75.
TOBIAS SMOLLETT, his Monument at Leghorn, 148.
Torrents of the Izere, their destructive Ravages in the Valleys
of Chambery, 371.

TORTURE CHAMBER, the, and its Racks, in the Rath-Haus
at Regensburg, 258.

Torture Triumphant, 348.

Torture, the tender Mercies of, exemplified in a Tale of
Louvain, 331.

TOULON, and the Towns on the Cornice, the incredible Lux-
uriance and lucrative Vegetation of their Precincts, 389.
TOURLEMAGNE, or the Chateaux and their Lords, a Tale, 227.
TOWER OF THE INQUISITION at Avignon, its characteristic
Appearance, 14.

Town, the, in the Dusk, 142.

Traditionary Function of the Robin Redbreast, 241.

TRADITION of the Empress Josephine, and the Chair of Char-
lemagne, at Aix la Chapelle, 322.

TRADITION of the Raubritter and the Weathercock, 214.
TRADITION OF UBALDO, Archbishop of Palestine, and the
precious Freight of his Fifty Vessels, 151.

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Tragedies of Dryden, their general Dullness sometimes illu-
minated by fine things, 265.

Traits, agreeable, of German Character, 323.

TRASTEVERE, the Procession there, 106.

TRAUSNITZ, the Fortress of, now the Town Prison of Lands-
hut, 266.

Treachery, the murderous, of Tarquin the Proud, 135.

Triforium, Circular, of the Baptistery at Pisa; the stately
Altitude of its columnar Tiers, 151.

Truth and Tradition on the Via Flaminia, 125.

TUILLERIES, the Enchantments of the Spring in the Groves
of its Palace Gardens, 2.

TURIN, a Metropolis worthy of Sardinia; the Royal Palace
and its superb Contents; the Armeria Regia; the Fair and
Foul of Steel Weapons; the knightly and princely Panoplies,
their mystic Solemnity turned into Burlesque; Recollection
of Sir Biorn and the Pilgrim; the Palazzo Madama and
its Picture Gallery; no Suburbs at Turin; the Superga ;
the stately Formality of the lofty Streets, stretching away
into Leagues of Avenues; the Number, Grandeur, and
Amplitude of the Piazzas; that of San Carlo distinguished
by Marochetti's Equestrian Statue; the Great Plain of
Lombardy, and its superb Cattle; the Prison-Palace and
its painful Story, Sacra San Michele, 153–160.

Twilight in the Colosseum, 126.

Twilight Landscape, from the Terrace of the Pontifical
Palace, 14.

U.

UBALDO, The Archbishop, his affectionate Value for the
Soil of Jerusalem,* 151.

This amiable enthusiasm of the Florentine Prelate is not
altogether without a precedent, since we find the illustrious Syrian
Leper, in the first transports of gratitude for his miraculous re-
covery, soliciting from Elisha a freight of Israelitish Earth; in order
that he might transport, to the Palm Groves of Damascus, a me-
morial of that Palestine, compared with whose balsamic Waters
the vaunted tides of Abana and Pharphar shrank into insigni-
ficance, and a fitting foundation for that destined Altar of which
he had protested-

"Thy servant will henceforth offer neither Burnt offering nor
Sacrifice unto other Gods, but unto THE LORD."-2 KINGS, v. 17.

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Ugliness, inauspicious, of the Tower of the Inquisition, 14.
ULM MUNSTER, its Western Tower of peerless Majesty; the
Six Porches, beautified with bold Relievi; the Interior, the
Sublimity of Magnitude; no Transept nor Triforium; the
Five Aisles; the Painted Windows of the Choir; the sin-
gular Construction of the Font; this Cathedral distin-
guished by the Stalls in the Choir, embellished with Three
Tiers of Busts on either side, representing Heathen, Jew-
ish, and Christian Worthies; a fine Sacraments Hauslein,
but unequal to that at Nüremberg, 288-290.
Umbrellas, Encampment of particoloured, in the Villa
Borghese, 98.

Uniform Exordium of that Devotional Phrase," Diis Mani-
bus," to all Sepulchral Inscriptions at Rome, 79.

Unintentional Kindness of the Roman Hierarchy in prohibit-
ing its Anglican Sister from the Vaults of its Churches, 48.
Unique Features of the Banca di San Giorgio at Genoa, 26.
Universe, the, Temple of Agrippa a Symbol thereof, 41.
URBAN VIII., a Pope of the Barberini Family, strips the
Bronze from the Dome of the Pantheon, 41.

Urn, a beautiful, in the Columbarium of Hylas, 78.
Utter Insignificance of Monumental Ornament, manifested in
the desolate Caves of the Scipios' Burial-place, 43.

V.

VALOUR of the Nurembergers: their inexorable Retaliations
on the RAUBRITTERS. 246.

Vastitude and robust Grandeur of the Palatial and Monastic
Piles that compose the Corso at Rome, 36.

VATICAN, the Museum of, its richest Apartment the Galle-
ria del Nilo, 87.

VAUCLUSE. The early Spring Morning; the Willow and
Poplar Groves; the necessity of visiting, in order to ap-
preciate, the "Secluded Valley;" its natural Sublimities
indebted to Petrarch for their Romance; the latest, wisest,
and happiest Hours of his Existence spent there; his gra-
phic Pictures of the Fisherman and his Wife, 17; the dif-
ferent Aspect of the Fountain and its Cavern in Winter
and Summer; the two grand old Cypresses in the Curate's
Garden; Ruins erroneously called Petrarch's Castle, 378.
VELABRA, the Amphitheatric; Lucretius alludes to them in a
magnificent Simile 33.

INDEX.

VENICE, Nüremberg compared to, 244.

447

VESTA, Temple of, its miniature Loveliness, now Santa Maria

del Sole, 47.

VESUVIUS, the Necromancer of Pompeii, 28.

VEVAY, its fertile and picturesque Environs, 181.
VIA EMILIA, now the Cornice, a noble Road, 21.
VIA APPIA NOVA, surnamed Regina Viarum, 71.

VIA AURELIA, by the Mediterranean Shore, very beautiful,
35.

VIA FLAMINIA, with the miscalled Tomb of Nero, 123.
VICTORY OF LEPANTO, commemorated by a most inhuman
Monument, 146.

Villages of Bavaria, their picturesque Pastures and primitive
Architecture, 224.

Ville Sonante, Avignon so nicknamed by Rabelais, 16.
Vineyards and Olive-yards and Corn-fields, their Fruits
denied to their Owners, 391.

Vision of Mirza, the Danube compared to the boundless vistas
of its mighty Flood, 251.

Volume of Dutch Pictures, Delights of its old Baronial Hofs
and Sclots and Münsters, 328.

W.

WALHALLA Tour, the Progress from Frankfurt through
Würtzburg, Nüremberg, Regensburg, München, Augs-
burg, and Ulm so entitled, 223.

WALHALLA, the Temple of, utterly destitute of Gothic Gloom;
romantic Beauty of its woodland Hill, sloping to the
Danube; its Busts; the coloured Caryatides, and Pope's
Narcissa; the Three Granite Terraces a defective Feature,
261-264.

Warriors, the Bodiless, of Stolzenfels Castle, 301.
WARTHURM, at Frankfurt, an appropriate Legend for it,

206.

Water-wheel, its picturesque Effect through sunshiney
Branches by the sparkling Sorgue, 383.

Weathercocks on the Eisenheimer Thurm, their various De-
vices celebrated by Hawes, 214.

Wells by the Wayside, their Beauty, their Melody, and their
Utility moralized, 292; their Floral Rites still observed in
England, 311.

Western Portal of St. Lorenz, of the Decorated Order, and
its great Marigold Window; their florid Sculptures, 245.

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