Excerpt from Traces of the Roman and the Moor, or Twice Trodden Tracks Through Lombardy and the Spains
Reader! From the magnificent nature of the scenery which characterizes the whole chain of the Italian lakes, and pre eminently claims for Genoa the title of The Superb City, as well as from the noble specimens of architectural beauty, that Charm the eye 'in the Lombardian and Spanish domin ion, 1 had at first conceived that no better name than LC Superba, fcbuld have been selected for the contents of this book. But, laying aside mere verbal advantage, I have chosen, rather; the most simple among the many names suggested by'my friends and the subject matter, and offer that which carries-the strongest conviction bf its fitness, since it embraces a description of these splendid nations, who, overrunning in their turn, both the northern part of Italy and Spain, left such vestiges in these countries, as will ever be easily recog.
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