114 TRAVELS THROUGH 



flourifhing palm-trees, the great American Agave 

 (which are growing in the open fields even fo far 

 North as Rome), fig-trees very common all over 

 Italy, cactus opuntia, the flourishing rofmarin, the 

 ever-green lemon and orange-trees, give to thefe 

 hills the mod agreeable variety of colours, and a 

 refemblance to a botanical garden *. 



The circular form of the more on both fides of 

 the Chiaja ; that is to fay, to the left towards 

 Portici, 'Torre delF annonziata, Torre del Greco, 

 Caftel mare, Sorrento, Salerno, and" Pejlo ; and to 

 the right towards the Pauftlippo, beyond the Scuola 

 di Virgilio to Cape Mifeno, together with the thea- 

 trical elevation of the hills all around the more, 

 produce the moft magnificent natural amphithe- 

 atre. From every fpot of this elevated circumfe- 

 rence you have a fight of the whole, of the fea, 

 of the iflands Procita, Ni/ita, Capri, Ifchia, and 

 of the Apennines running to Calabria. What a 

 noble view ! Ah might I be doomed to enjoy thee 

 longer 1 Going by the Grotta di Pozzuolo to that 



* Lemons, citrons, cedrates, pomerances, and china-apples, 

 grow between Rome and Naples every where without any par- 

 ticular culture. There are whole foreib of fuch trees near 

 Terracina. But they are in flavour and fragrance much 

 below the Spanifti and Portugueze fruits. There are ripe 

 wood-berries, and woodberry-forbets or jellies, to be had in 

 January. 



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