ITALY. LETTER X. 



LETTER X. 



Naples* Feb. 2, 1772. 



IAlM but juft returned from a walk, which 

 three times in a week I take with Mr. Gust- 

 tard, and which is fo charming, that to have it 

 more fo, there wants but your company. We go 

 from the Chiaja to the right along the fea-fhore 

 to Paufilippo, and return the fame way. After 

 continual rains from the end of December to the 

 middle of January, we have now the moil agree- 

 able fpring -, but a fpring, which nearly refembles 

 the fummer of our Northern countries, except 

 the feas being continually ftorming and fo dan- 

 gerous, that even the rimers do not venture out, 

 and we have almoft given up all thoughts of going 

 to the iflands Ifchia, Capri, and Precita. Such 

 voyages are not to be undertaken but in fummer, 

 when the fea is faid to be conftantly calm and 

 quiet. But we enjoy the more the pleafant views 

 of the Continent. The hills of Paufdippo are co- 

 vered already with flonriming almond-trees, Some 

 I flou- 



