Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . s Setinum vinum pratulit cunSiis : nafcitur fupra Forum^ppii, Nat. Hift. 1. 14. c. 6. This paffage feems to be aproof that the three taverns were hereabouts, being mentiondin the A£ts of the Apoftles as near Appii Forum; which we findhere by Pliny was below the Setine vineyards. For curiofity,we calld for fome, of what they have now, to tafte, but foundit very indifferent; and we were told that now-a-days they arefo far from fending wine from thence to other places, that theyfetch it from
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . s Setinum vinum pratulit cunSiis : nafcitur fupra Forum^ppii, Nat. Hift. 1. 14. c. 6. This paffage feems to be aproof that the three taverns were hereabouts, being mentiondin the A£ts of the Apoftles as near Appii Forum; which we findhere by Pliny was below the Setine vineyards. For curiofity,we calld for fome, of what they have now, to tafte, but foundit very indifferent; and we were told that now-a-days they arefo far from fending wine from thence to other places, that theyfetch it from Frefcati, Velitri, and other parts thither: Tis awhite wine, as moft of the Italian wines are. Hereabouts, and further on towards Naples, we faw a greatmany of theFicusIndica, which are much larger in thefe thanin the other parts of Italy. In this road we pafsd through herds of buffaloes, a fourfort of animal, already mentiond : they are very frequent inthefe parts. They are fo fluggilh, that tho we ftuck the pointsof our fwords into their hides, we could hardly make em ftirout of ou,- way. 6 Before.
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