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"Melius latebam procul ab invidi? malis
Remotus inter Corsici rupes maris."
Roman Tragedy of Octavia.
The Tower of Seneca can be seen at sea, and from a distance of many miles. It stands on a gigantic, quite naked mass of granite, which rises isolated from the mountain-ridge, and bears on its summit the black weather-beaten pile. The ruin