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Updated: June 21, 2025
Her gaze seemed to have crossed the blue pavement of sea, and rested on the purpling outlines of Ischia and Capri; but the dimpling smile that crossed her face sprang from no dreamy reverie of Parthenope legends, and her voice was low and deep like one rehearsing for some tragic outbreak.
Referring to the tradition recorded by Pliny, that Sicily was torn from Italy by an earthquake, he observes that the land near the sea in those parts was rarely shaken by earthquakes, since there are now orifices whereby fire and ignited matters and waters escape; but formerly, when the volcanoes of Etna, the Lipari Islands, Ischia, and others were closed up, the imprisoned fire and wind might have produced far more violent movements.
A long promontory curves round the gulf; the dark crag at the end of it is Cape Misenum, and a little on the hither side, obscured in remoteness, lies what once was Baiae. Beyond the promontory gleams again a blue line of sea. The low length of Procida is its limit, and behind that, crowning the view, stands the mountain-height of Ischia. Over all, the hues of an autumn evening in Campania.
Capri once made odious by the deified beast Tiberius Ischia, Procida, and the thousand distant beauties of the Bay, lie in the blue sea yonder, changing in the mist and sunshine twenty times a- day: now close at hand, now far off, now unseen. The fairest country in the world, is spread about us.
S'nore, you are an officer and understand such things; and I will just ask you if Ischia does not lie northwest of Capri?" "Of that fact there can be no manner of doubt," returned Griffin; "it is equally true that the Gulf of Salerno lies southeast of both "
Her head had been laid to the southwest, at the first appearance of the afternoon wind; and that frigate was now hull-down to seaward actually making a free wind of it, as she shaped her course up between Ischia and Capri.
The present hermitage on Mont’ Epomeo dates however from comparatively modern times, for its first occupant is said to have been a German nobleman, a certain Joseph Arguth, governor of Ischia under the first Bourbon king, who in consequence of a solemn vow made in battle deliberately passed his last years of existence on the topmost peak of the island he had lately ruled.
"I had better, perhaps, suggest it to see if they are willing," he said the next minute, hedging. "I already ask him dat." "Oh, you have! And he would like it not object, I mean?" he added, aware of a subtle sense of half-frightened pleasure. "Pleased and flattered on the contrary," was the reply, as he handed him the glasses to look at Ischia rising blue from the sea.
He arranged the cushion tenderly. "The weather, too! Why, where is the storm?" "Over Ischia," said Artois. "It will stay there. Ischia! It is a volcano. Anything terrible may happen there." "And Vesuvius?" said Hermione, laughing. The Marchesino threw up his chin. "We are not going to Vesuvius. I know Naples, Signora, and I promise you fine weather.
We halt at the port of Procida, with its flat-roofed gaily coloured houses lining the quay and ascending the gentle slope towards the Rocciola. Thence, skirting the low-lying fertile shores of the island, and passing the olive-clad islet of Vivara, we soon come in sight of the steep headland on which are perched the grey masses of the Castle of Ischia, “the Mount St Michael of Italy.”
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