Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . own to a frame of cane, fo that for the compafs ofa large field you might walk as in a continued arbour. Wefaw many nurferies of cane planted for thatpurpofe. I crofsdabundance of little rivers, which were mofl of them fordableat that time. I fuppofe they had not run very far; but tooktheir rife among fome of the neighbouring mountains on myleft hand, and emptied themfelves into the fea on my little towns and villages at the foot of the mountains a-long the fea-fide, were pretti
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . own to a frame of cane, fo that for the compafs ofa large field you might walk as in a continued arbour. Wefaw many nurferies of cane planted for thatpurpofe. I crofsdabundance of little rivers, which were mofl of them fordableat that time. I fuppofe they had not run very far; but tooktheir rife among fome of the neighbouring mountains on myleft hand, and emptied themfelves into the fea on my little towns and villages at the foot of the mountains a-long the fea-fide, were prettier than any of their fize I have metwith elfewhere. As Genoa is a very fine city itfelf, fo thelittle places under its dominion were in their proportion fuit-able. The door-cafes in thefe little towns were many of themmarble, fo were the window-frames and flairs: but marble isno rarity in thefe parts, and no otherwife coflly, than by thelabour of working it. At Sputorne, a fmall town in this road, I met with the for-rowful mother of a youth who was in the veffel taken by theTurks the Friday before. Atgri_artdepeindre00wate. 39
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