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Rh number of places built by the princely Italian families of the Middle Ages, and containing many valuable treasures of sculpture and painting. The only palace, however, which I visited was the historical palace of Andrea Dorea, the great admiral of the time of Charles V. The palace still belongs to the elder branch of the Dorea family. Inside it are paintings of Charles V. and of Andrea Dorea, and of the great Christian victory of Lepanto over the Turks. How different the fleets of those days were to those of the modern times. Vessels in those days were mostly galleys with numbers of oars pulled by galley slaves, and the picture of the battle of Lepanto is instructive and interesting. We know that the biggest vessel of the Spanish Armada sent to conquer England was about 1,200 tons, and such vessels were considered monsters, for Drake and others had circumnavigated the world in vessels of less than half the tonnage. An ordinary modern passenger steamer is often more than four times the tonnage of the proudest vessel of the Invincible Armada, and is above ten times the size of the vessels with which Drake described a girdle round the Earth!

The one thing in Genoa which no visitor should omit to see is the Campo Santo or the Cemetery. It is outside the town and is beautifully embosomed in an amphitheatre of hills. The building is imposing and the graves are arranged in long arcades as in Bologna, with beautiful and elaborate marble figures. There are