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Cavigni, meanwhile, informed her of the names of the noble light sketches of their

characters, such as served to a

his oit instead of the delineation of truth Eaiety did not entertain Madarave, and Montoni

retained his usual reserve

Nothing could exceed Emily's admiration on her first view of Venice,

with its islets, palaces, and towers rising out of the sea, whose clear

surface reflected the tre in the west, tinted the waves and the lofty mountains of Friuli,

which skirt the northern shores of the Adriatic, with a saffron glohile on the marble porticos and colonnades of St Mark were thrown

the rich lights and shades of evening As they glided on, the grander

features of this city appeared more distinctly: its terraces, crowned

with airy yet majestic fabrics, touched, as they noere, with the

splendour of the setting sun, appeared as if they had been called up

from the ocean by the wand of an enchanter, rather than reared byto the loorld, the shadow of the earth