1 74 TRAVELS THROUGH 



then heat and poifonous damps are obferved in it ; 

 but I found neither. 



Mcnte Nuovo is already fpoken of. 



Tripergold) a market town fwallowed up by the 

 fea, together with the adjacent famous Lago Lit- 

 crino *. 



Lago d'Averno, an old crater. 



Grotla della Sibylla Cumana. 



Luogo deir antica citta di Cuma. 



Arco felice. 



Cifterna d'Aqua di Cuma. 



Monte FalernO) celebrated by Horace's favourite 

 wine* 



Bagni^ e ftufe di TritoH ofia di Nerone are feveral 

 rooms cut in the volcanic tufo-hill ; fome of them 

 are intolerably hot. In one of thefe grottos, which 

 is obliquely running into the rock, the heat is fo 

 intolerable, that naked people in two minutes 

 diftill with fweat. The heat flopped my refpira- 

 tion, and I could not go in them above thirty 

 paces. Diftant one hundred and thirty paces 

 from the entrance is a hot aluminous water, about 

 one palm deep, which hardens eggs in a moment. 



Palazzi di Nerone. 



- ' di Giulio Cefare. 

 di Mercurio. 



* Rather buried and filled with afhes. 



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