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Rome After A Season Becomes Oppressive. Your Capacity Of Enjoyment Is
Exhausted. The Atmosphere Of Excitement In which You Live, Owing To
The Number, Variety, And Transcendent Interest Of The Sights That Have
To Be Seen, Wears Out The Nervous System, And You Have An Ardent
Desire For A Little Respite And Change Of Scene. I Remember That After
The First Month I Had A Deep Longing To Get Away Into The Heart Of An
Old Wood, Or Into A Lonely Glen Among The Mountains, Where I Should
See No Trace Of Man'S Handiwork, And Recover The Tone Of My Spirit
Amid The Wildness Of Nature. For This Inevitable Reaction Of
Sight-Seeing In the City, A Remedy May Be Found By Retiring For A Day
Or Two To Some One Or Other Of The Numerous Beautiful Scenes In the
Neighbourhood. There Is No City In the World More Favourably Situated
For This Purpose Than Rome. Some Of The Most Charming Excursions May
Be Made From It As A Centre, Starting In the Morning and Returning at
Night. Every Tourist Who Stays But A Fortnight In the City Makes A
Point Of Seeing The Idyllic Waterfalls Of Tivoli, The Extensive Ruins
Of Hadrian'S Villa, The Picturesque Olive-Clad Slopes Of Frascati And
Tusculum, And The Lovely Environs Of Albano On The Edge Of Its
Richly-Wooded lake. But There Are Spots That Are Less Known At No
Greater Distance, Which Yet Do Not Yield In beauty Or Interest To
These Familiar Resorts. Chief Among These Is Veii, Whose Very Name
Has In it A Far-Off Old-World Sound. When The Campagna Has Quickened
Under The Breath Of The Italian Spring Into A Tender Greenness, And Is
Starred with Orchids And Sweet-Scented narcissuses, I Know Nothing
More Pleasant Than A Visit To This Renowned spot.