Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . en miles from Rome, rs-- famous too for its water-works, and other curiofities, intheVilla dEfte, belonging to the duke of Modena. Here isanother fine water-organ,, with abundance of cafcades, foun-tains, and grottas, which have been once very nobly adornd,but are many of them now in a very ill condition : there is a longwalk with a row of fmall fountains continued all along onefide of it; at the further end of it is a reprefentation of fomeof the temples and other buildings of old Rome,
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . en miles from Rome, rs-- famous too for its water-works, and other curiofities, intheVilla dEfte, belonging to the duke of Modena. Here isanother fine water-organ,, with abundance of cafcades, foun-tains, and grottas, which have been once very nobly adornd,but are many of them now in a very ill condition : there is a longwalk with a row of fmall fountains continued all along onefide of it; at the further end of it is a reprefentation of fomeof the temples and other buildings of old Rome, in marble :a city as it were in mignature : they muft have been a work ofmore expence, than their appearance anfwers. Among the ftatues, of which there is a great number, Iobferved one of a ccejiiarius, with the Phrygian cap. Thethongs, reprefented round his hand, are continued up tothe elbow ; as they are in the baffo relievo of the two ca-f- * Fcr the manner of thefe water-organs, fee father Kjrchers Mufurgia Uni-verfalis,;ive An Magna Confoni \£ Dijfani. L. ix. part. v. pragm. i. & ii. tiariii. T I V O L I. tiarii in the Villa Aldobrandina in Rome. The reai thongsthe cajliarii made ufe of (they fay) were of buffalos hide. The cafcade of Tivoli is nothing fo deep as that of Terni, of a greater breadth (unlefs the great depth of the othermake it appear narrower) and rufhes down with a vail is the river Anio falling down a precipice [praceps Anio, asHorace terms it] now called the Teverone. This immediately,after its fall, divides itfelf into two parts ; one of which fetchesa compafs about the town; the other is foon loft in a gulpb,and runs in feveral channels under a great part of the town]and then rifing again, comes to the Palazzo dEfte, whence abranch -of it runs to Mecamass villa, the remains of whichftill appear; and afterward it falls in feveral fmall cafcades intothe other part of the river, which comes round the Upon an eminence, oppofite
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