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The World Displayed, Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected From the Writers of All Nations (Volume 18); In Which the Conjectures ... Expunged, Every Relation Is Made Concise an
Samuel Johnson
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-05.
ISBN 9781150957918
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1761. Excerpt: ... Rapheal; on sive of the largest are represented St. Paul and the four Evangelists, and the rest are adorned with the Histories of Saints, the Metamorphoses of Onid, &c. The city of Loretto is but small, but it is pretty well fortisied. In the great square is a noble marble fountain adorned with several brass statues, and another erected by the citizens, in acknowledgment of certain privileges granted them by Pope Sixtus V. The inhabitants get their livelihood by making and selling medals, rofaries, fanctisied beads, images, Agnus Dei, and other things of the like nature. CHAP. VII. Our Author's Journey from Loretto to Naples, , with a Description of the famous Water-fall of Monte del Marmore, and of every thing rtpiarkable on the Road; particularly some Observations on the Via Appia, and Via Flaminia. A particular Description of the City of Naples and the neighbouring Placet; as Puzzoli, the Lakes Lucrin and Avernus, the Sybils Grotto, pndBaiæ. TRAVELLING from hence through Recanati, a small city seated on the top of a hill, three miles from Loretto, I looked into the great church, where I could see nothing worth mentioning but the tomb of Pope Gregory XII. who was deposed by the council pi Pisa. r Ten Ten miles farther, in a most fruitful country on the bank of Poten&a, we passed through the ruins of the city formerly known by the name of tieln/ia Ricina, where we faw vast fragments of an amphitheatre built of stone and brick; then travelling on the fame side of the river two miles among the hills, we came to Macerata, where we lodged that night. It being foul weather we could not stir abroad; but we were told by the inhabitants that it was a large and pleafant place. The country between Macerata and Talentino lies all upon a level, but though extreme
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