As to the details of the journey, and the scenery through which you pass, are they not written in the book of Murray, wherein whoso likes may read them?
It is enough for me to note one or two facts which tell their own story.

Throughout the forty and odd miles of the road I traversed, I never passed through a single village or town, with the exception of Tivoli; and between that town and Rome, a distance of some twenty miles, never even caught sight of one.

After Tivoli, when the road enters the mountains, there are a dozen small towns or so, all perched on the summits of high hills, under which the road winds in passing.

Detached houses or cottages there are, as a rule, none--certainly not half a dozen in all--the whole way along.

There was little appearance of traffic anywhere.