text:  "A beautiful place this _Segeste_ must be! One could undergo any thing to see it!" Such would be the probable exclamation of more than one reader looking over some _landscape annual_ embellished with perhaps _a view_ of the celebrated temple and its surrounding scenery; but find yourself at any of the inexpressibly horrid inns of _Alcamo_ or _Calatafrini_ (and these are the two principal stations between Palermo and Segeste--one with its 12 000 the other with its 18 000 inhabitants;) let us walk you down the main street of either and if you don't wish yourself at Cheltenham or some other unclassical place which never had a Latin name we are much mistaken! The "_Relievo dei Cavalli_" at Alcamo offers no _relief_ for you! The _Magpie_ may prate on her sign-post about _clean_ beds for magpies can be made to say any thing; but pray do not construe the "_Canova Divina_" Divine Canova! _He_ never executed any thing for the _Red Lion_ of Calatafrini whose "Canova" is a low wine-shop full of wrangling Sicilian boors