text: " After a short excursion to Sicily in which Mr Waterton had occasion to surmise that the ancient furies of Scylla and Charybdis had quitted their old quarters to take up their abode in the passport-offices and regretted his inability to avail himself of the opportunities which the island afforded for observing the spring and autumn passage of the migratory birds they paid a farewell visit to the tomb of Virgil and left "that laughing noisy merry city of Naples on a fine and sunny morning to enjoy for eight or nine months more the soothing quiet of the Roman capital