The steamer
will be provided with every necessary comfort,
including library and
musical instruments.
An experienced physician will be on board.
Leaving
New York about June 1st, a middle and pleasant route
will
be taken across the
Atlantic, and passing through the group of
Azores, St. Michael
will be reached in about ten days. A day or two
will be spent here,
enjoying the fruit and wild scenery of these
islands, and the voyage
continued, and Gibraltar reached in three or
four days.
A day or
two will be spent here in looking over the wonderful
subterraneous fortifications,
permission to visit these galleries
being readily obtained.
From Gibraltar,
running along the coasts of Spain and France,
Marseilles will be reached
in three days. Here ample time will be
given not only to look
over the city, which was founded six hundred
years before the Christian
era, and its artificial port, the finest
of the kind in the Mediterranean,
but to visit Paris during the
Great Exhibition; and
the beautiful city of Lyons, lying
intermediate, from the
heights of which, on a clear day, Mont Blanc
and the Alps can be
distinctly seen. Passengers who may wish to
extend the time at Paris
can do so, and, passing down through
Switzerland, rejoin
the steamer at Genoa.
From Marseilles
to Genoa is a run of one night. The excursionists
will have an opportunity
to look over this, the “magnificent city of
palaces,” and
visit the birthplace of Columbus, twelve miles off,
over a beautiful road
built by Napoleon I. From this point,
excursions may be made
to Milan, Lakes Como and Maggiore, or to
Milan, Verona (famous
for its extraordinary fortifications), Padua,
and Venice. Or,
if passengers desire to visit Parma (famous for
Correggio’s frescoes)
and Bologna, they can by rail go on to
Florence, and rejoin
the steamer at Leghorn, thus spending about
three weeks amid the
cities most famous for art in Italy.
From Genoa
the run to Leghorn will be made along the coast in
one
night, and time appropriated
to this point in which to visit
Florence, its palaces
and galleries; Pisa, its cathedral and
“Leaning Tower,”
and Lucca and its baths, and Roman amphitheater;
Florence, the most remote,
being distant by rail about sixty miles.
From Leghorn
to Naples (calling at Civita Vecchia to land any who
may prefer to go to
Rome from that point), the distance will be made
in about thirty-six
hours; the route will lay along the coast of
Italy, close by Caprera,
Elba, and Corsica. Arrangements have been
made to take on board
at Leghorn a pilot for Caprera, and, if
practicable, a call
will be made there to visit the home of
Garibaldi.