The sun had not been long above the level of the Lido before the strains of horns and trumpets arose from the square of St. Mark.

At the furthermost limit of the park lay the wide estuary of the Neuse, swept by the cool breezes of Pamlico Sound and by the winds that blew from the ocean beyond the narrow lido of the coast.

'Tis said that a fairer model has never entered within the Lido than that same Greek!"

One instance, of a different kind of devotion, from Byron's own account, is sufficiently graphic:"In the autumn one day, going to the Lido with my gondoliers, we were overtaken by a heavy squall, and the gondola put in peril, hats blown away, boat filling, oar lost, tumbling sea, thunder, rain in torrents, and wind unceasing.