Venice, 95, 122; contrasted with Genoa, 160; rival of Genoa, 163; the _palazzi_ of, 168; a town unequalled in Europe, and general aspect, 219; history, 221; formation and shape, 222; view of San Marco from the Piazza, 223-226; date of erection, restoration, and interior of St. Mark's, 225; view from the Molo, and the Grand Canal, 226, 227; a funeral, 229; islands sheltering it from the sea, 230-232 Ventimiglia, Fortifications of, 157 Venus, Temple of, shrine at Eryx, 318 Venus Zephyrites, 252 Vesuvius, 161, 326 Viareggio, Recovery of Shelley's body at, 193, 198 Vico, 346 Victor, Marshal, dispersal of his army by Colonel Gough at Tarifa, 4 Villa Franca, 21; treaty of, 129; picturesqueness of, 141 Virgil, reference to the cunning of Ligurians, 161; the Elysian Fields, 338 Visigoths, The, 109 Vittoriosa, 289 Vulcano, 317 W Wade, Marshal, 13 War of the Spanish Succession, 22 Wauchope, General, at Rosetta, 256 Wellington, Monument at Gibraltar to, 13 Whittaker, Captain, and the siege of Gibraltar, 22 Women, of Genoa, 162; restrictions at the Cathedral of Genoa against, 181; of Spain, 92; of Nice, 129; their attractiveness at Malaga, 54; of Naples, 328; of Capri, 342 X Xerxes, 94 Y Young, Dr., and the Egyptian stone at Rosetta, 258 Z Zerka, 273 FOOTNOTES: [1] History of Modern Architecture. [2] Dennis: "Cities of Etruria." [3] Dennis: "Cities of Etruria," I., p. xxxii. [4] Ruskin: "Stones of Venice." [5] Alison's "History of Europe." [6] Sir Theodore Martin. [7] In Homeric times, as is shown by the Odyssey, the Nile was called [Greek: Aignptos], a name which was afterwards transferred to the country.