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    ( Continued from p . ? 49 . ) ; , - ^ > t \ pp As Rome was very full of people , and of course very imcomfor ^ le ^ &f this season , I determined to go down to Naples for a week or twd ^ le ^ vin ^ many things to be seen on my return . u There are no diligences on this road , except that which comes oiice a month from Florence ; but there is a man of the name of Angrisani , who engages to convey travellers post , whenever he can make up a party to fill a voiture . I took a place in one of these conveyances , in which I set out

    early in the morning of Tuesday , April 8 th , and reached Naples , a distance of one hundred and sixty-six English miles , in thirty-two hours ; for which , supper included , I paid fifteen scudi , or about three pounds . The road which we travelled has been formed on the foundation of the old Via A ppia , and is in general excellent . With the Pontine Marshes I was agreeably disappointed . This vast tract of flat and boggy land , extending twentyfour miles in length , is indeed anything else than populous , there being

    nothing to remind one of human beings but a few wretched reed-built huts , a large post-house at the end of every eight miles , and a guard-house , with a solitary soldier or two , at every half mile : but there is only a small part of this tract which is not reclaimed to purposes of cultivation . It consists in general of immense meadows or strays , on which horses and herds of buffaloes were grazing , and the grass looked green and luxuriant . The

    work of draining these noxious swamps was begun by Appius Claudius , resumed by Boniface VIII ., continued by succeeding Popes , and completed by Pius VII . ; but the chief merit of the undertaking appears to belong to Pius VI . By the side of the road is a large sluice or canal , the identical one on which Horace sailed in the track-boat , in going down to Brundusium . I thought of his description of the choleric passenger jumping out , and flogging the mule and the boat-man with a willow stick :

    Jamque dies aderat , cum nil procedere lintrem Sentimus ; donee cerebrosus prosilit unus Ac mulse nautaeque caput lumbosque saligno Fuste dolat . Sat . Lib . i . 5 . All this country , in short , is most classical ground . It was on the sea-coast at Laurentum that jEneas landed when he came to Italy ; and Terracina is the ancient Anxur , which corresponds exactly to Horace ' s description , Impositum late sax is candentibus Anxur .

    The modern town stands where the ancient one did ; but the road and the post-house are at the bottom instead of the top-of the bold and barren cliff , which admits only of a narrow passage between its base and the sea . We supped at Mola di Gaeta , consecrated as the situation of Cicero ' s Formianum , a villa to which he u ^ e 4 to retire from the fatigues and the troubles of public life , and where hp i $ said to have written his Tusculan

    Questions . It was near thip place , tQQ , that he was assassinated by the soldiers of Antony , as he was trying to make his escape to the sea-shore . The next morning , at day-break , we found ourselves in the midst of a most rich and beautiful country ; ' an Extensive plain , bounded to the north by a range of hills , among which are tlip ^ e fron ^ which Horace drew his casks of Falernian ; but this wine hia ^ iipvylost fts reputation .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 831, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/31/