Rain and apparently set in for bad weather - give up the tour to Daltia as eleven days on a steamer with rain and rough sea would be very unsatisfactory - dined at the trattonia of the Retina della Grecia - here the best country wines can be had - Vino de Rosa and Refosco - the latter is a sparkling wine - fell in company with Mr. Murray - nephew and clerk to Mr. Moore -

Went to the exhibition - few ladies were there - by invitation had the Signor Rossi to dine with me at cor table d' hote - dinner rather indifferent - drank only one bottle claret among three of us - at the opera as usual - saw the primma donna that is to perform in the forthcoming opera of Gailio d'Este - a very plain woman

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On the steamer in coming from Corfu became slightly acquainted with a young gentleman of Trieste who had been several years in Russia and Greece - his mother and sisters came and spoke to him from a boat while we were in quarantine - this morning met him on the Piazza Grand much changed in appearance - has had an attack of fever - which thinks he contracted in Greece - had been seeking me as he understood I was to make a stay at Trieste - his name is Ottaviano Rossi - introduced me to several young men his cousins - after dinner introduced me to his brother Sig Auguste Rossi - rode out in barouche together to the Boschetto and passeggio Sant andrea where there were a number of carriages and a crowd of fashionables - Sig Auguste is secretary of the "Associazione Assicuratrlce" - and speaks French, Italian, English, German and Greek - 35 years of age - in the evening took me to his box at the opera - which is occupied by several bachelors in partnership - pointed out to me the different belles and their names - it appears there are but few Cavaliers Servante at Trieste - Rome & Lucca carry the palm for (say wear the horns) - the grissetes are few at the Teatro grande - II Signor Gover; natore with his wife and daughters was/the imperial lodge - -

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Spent the day mostly in reading - in the afternoon walked to the end of the city called the Corderia or rope walk - it is along the sea side and affords an agreable view of the port - at the opera met with a very agreable gentleman - a german or perhaps a swede - a well educated and travelled man - also dined next to him at the table d'hote - took leave of him as he left the opera to go on the steamer for Venice that leaves every other evening at ten - -

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My companion Mr. Kirkpatrick -(No 5 Kingsbench waIk - Temple London) has to embark in the boat at 4 this evening from Trieste to Corfu - so started early to give him time by eleven we were back at Trieste - went to see the exhibition of paintings of modern artists the Society delle belle arte have charge of them - they are numbered and prices affixed by the directors - few are yet sold, when last year to the amount of 25,000 florins were sold - the change of times - from prosperity to commercial distress is unfavourable to the arts. The following are a part

Maternal love - 4 ft. x 5 ft - by G. Signorini - 600 florins - best

Odalisca - 6 ft x 3 ft - Mueller 600 f- fair

Shepherds boys - 3 ft x 2-1'2 by Seller 300 f - very natural

Abraham send away Agar - 4 ft. x 3 - Smidt 100 f. not so good ..

Woman Asleep Marastoni good colouring -

Landscape in Sweden 2-1/2 x 2-1/2 ft. Palm 160 f - very good

a Turk at Prayer - -1 '- x 2 ft. Kess 150 f - natural

Holy Water - 4 ft. x 3 Scatola 300 f - very good - cheap - 5 figures

Two Napolitan women 2-1'2 x 2 ft. Vogel 110 f, fair

Mountain Scenery - h x 3 ft. M.cantoni 200 f. fine

Fruit & Flowers - 5 X 2 ft. Gruber ^ f pretty . rm. * ^ vii/p ft Focosi

Ballet Scene in Theatre 6 x 3-1/2 It. *fl. 100 figures - well done good painting

Albanian Girl 5 x 3 ft Cartu

Circassian Slave

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Were ready to start at six having taken coffee and a roll - the road for some miles ascends tve hill and follows the same direction as the road to Adelsburg - then turns to the west and follows the shore of the Adriatic - Aquileia is of ports distant from Trieste say abt. 32 miles - half way is San Giovanni the sourses of the Tinuo (the classic Tinavus) when we got out and stopped to examine them - they burst out at the foot of a rock - and uniting form a considerable and rapid stream empty into the sea some miles off - the latin poets differ as to the number of sourses - Virgil makes them nine - but the water is now dammed up so that there are only three distinct sourses - the water is very turbid and boils from under the rock with a rushing sound "Un du pu ora novem, vasto cum rauvernore irontis It mare preruptum, et pelago premit avra sonanti" It is a great at natural curiosity, besides being honoured by the pens of Ovid and Virgil - by 11 o clock we entered the neat little town of Monfalcone - while dinner was preparing took a rabble - the people are all busy with the vintage - the grapes are brought in fro the neighbouring vineyards in large vats drawn by oxen - in the oellar when we entered a civil old lady was superintending the making of her wine - there were two stout men pressing the grapes in a vat with their feet - and the liquor running out into another vat - it appears wine presses are not used here - the churoh was close by into which we went - there was no one in at the time - in the confessional was a printed paper - as follows:

Casus Illms et Rev. ms Doms Epis - Goritiensi reservati -

1°- furtum rerum Sacrarum - in loco sacro commissam

2° - Aborters foetus - sive animati, sive inaninati nrocuratus

3° - Homicidium voluntarium et intentum siupuse - sive pu alios papretatum -

4° - Actus veneris cum Hebraeis, et inter confess-rium et pententem consumatus

5° - Attentis machinationis aut conjurationis contra terrce princepeur

leaving Montfalcone we passed twelve miles over a rich alluvial country to Aquileia - crossing the I'Isanzo a considerable mountain stream that takes its rise in the alps -the country in entirely planted with vines, the people are plucking the grapes which are carried in long vats from the vineyards - in some places we could hardly get along for tha nufflber of teams so employed - the country gets more low and frequent marshes as we arproached Aquileia - which has a very desolate appearance - there are pieces of columns and capitals of marble and granite strewed about - the town in one place they have collected some stone tombs and pieces of mutilated sculpture but everything is broken and ruined, so completely did Attilla and his Goths do the work of destruction in the 5th century - and thl is a nlace that figures in roman history as the bulwark of that great empire in this carter and now not a wall or column erect to test its form sise and population of 100,000 people - the cathedral is of the 9th century and is partly in the Bysantine style of architecture - no bishop resides now at Aquileia - the port is long ago filled up and has become a marsh - and the town is now several miles from the sea - we had concluded to return to Montfalcone to sleep - found our coachman laid up, shaking with an ague - probably caused by riding in the sun and the air of the marshes - got back to Monfalcone by dark - the road crowded with the peasantry coring in from the vineyards - on a hill back of the town there is a fort, ascended part of the way hut a moonlight view is indistinct so returned to the Albergo and went to bed -

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Spent the day in reading Casotte's description of Istria and Dalmatia - as a preparation for my intended tour - after dinner walked to the Boschetto in the evening at the Testrc Mauroner - opera the 2nd act of L'Elisir d amore - and the ballet by Madae Groll - got into conversation with a young gentleman that sat next to me - young Mauroner the son of the builder of the theatre - it was constructed fifteen years ago - for an smnhiteatre or circus - and will contain 3 000 persons - at the death of the father the theatre was sold - in the supper room met Mr. Kirkpatrick an english gentleman - who I have for several evenings past found at supper - mentioned to hira my desire of seeing Aquileia a place so much spoken of in ancient history of the roman empire - have agreed to go together and start early in the morning - spoke for a carriage accordingly