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Title: A university tramp
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hubbell, Orrin Z
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: Elkhart, Ind. : G. W. Butler
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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spans the canal between them. There are onehundred and filty canals and three hundred and seventy-eight stone bridges in Venice. The Grand Canal windsaround through the city like a reversed letter S and islined on either side by old, historic, interesting andbeautiful marble palaces. In one palace which I visitedare 600 rooms and halls finished with the utmost ex-travagance in splendid marble and costly stone. Onemust visit Venice to realize her lovely and romantic situa-tion. No written word or painted picture can reveal it.Dickens Italian Dream falls far short of the real. InVenice, no rumble of a carriage wheel or tread of ahorses hoof is ever heard. There is no such thing as ahorse within the limits of the city. Instead there is thesoft plash of the gondoliers oar and his graceful move-ment as he plies it and the smooth and pleasing motionof the gondola upon the waters placid surface. What acontrast to other cities. With 130,000 inhabitants, she ■ If •• ~Hp.: >>;1<
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&--; A Venetian City — 153 — lies as still and tranquil and quiet as a Sunday in thecountry. The city is pervaded with one vast restfulquietness. Night after night I glided along in a dreamof happiness over the canals, under the soft Italian skywhile rarest strains of richest music stole gently to myear, as if to convince me that I was in a paradise of joy.Listless, happy, dreamy I sit, as the gondola glides aboutas gracefully as a swan. Suddenly we come upon a largegondola, supplied with light from numerous Chinese lan-terns, and carrying a band of Italian singers. Followingcome fifty or sixty gondolas bearing spectators. Thesingers gondola glides up close to the marble walls of apalace and stops. Then there bursts upon the quietnight a flood of melody such as only can come fromItalian throats. Then they glide on and stop under thearch of the Rialto, and again they give us a concertwhich the fantastic surroundings, the dark water of thecanal reflecting and multiplying the man

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