On the large pictures, such as those which are in St. Peter's, several men are employed at the same time, but on the lesser only one. It is very tedious, requiring years to copy one of the largest size. All the pictures in St. Peter's are in mosaic, except one, and they are at work on one which is to replace this single oil-piece. The studio appeared in good order, but there were only two men at work, as the Government spends very little money upon it at present. From one of the open galleries we (Morier and I) saw a thunderstorm, with gusts of wind, flashes of lightning, and rain. It was amazingly grand from that place as it swept over the city and made us 'sharers in its fierce delight.' Then to the Borghese Gardens, and back to one of those sunsets from the Pincian which will long be remembered among the smoke and fogs in which I am destined to live. CHAPTER IX. Lake of Albano--Velletri--Naples--Rapid Travelling in 1830--A Trial at Naples--Deciphering Manuscripts--Ball at the Duchesse d'Eboli's--Matteis's Plot and Trial--Pompeii--Taking the Veil-- Pausilippo--Baiae--La Cava--Salerno--Paestum--Lazaroni--Museum of Naples--Grotto del Cane--The Camaldoli--Herculaneum-- Vesuvius--Sorrento--Miracle of St. Januarius--Astroni--Farewell to Naples. [Page Head: ALBANO--NAPLES] Velletri, April 15th, 1830 {p.331} Left Rome at nine o'clock this morning; at Albano procured an ancient rural cicerone, a boy, and two donkeys, and set out on the grand _giro_ of the place. The road over the Campagna is agreeable, because the prospect roundabout is so fine, and the aqueducts stretching over the plain so grand. After climbing up to the Capuchin Convent, close to which are the remains of what is called Domitian's Theatre, we came to the lake, which is beautiful, but does not look large, and still less as if it had ever threatened Rome with destruction. There is a road called the Upper Gallery, shaded by magnificent ilexes, which leads to the Villa Barberini, a delicious garden, once Clodius's and afterwards part of Domitian's Villa, containing many remains of former magnificence. This villa was probably the scene of the council described by Juvenal (Fourth Satire). Misso proceres exire jubentur Concilio, quos Albanam Dux magnus in arcem Traxerat attonitos.