iO TRAVELS THROUGH 



communis, Punica Granafum, Liguftrum Vttlg'are^ 

 Ceratonia Sili^ua, and feveral others. 



The ruins of the old celebrated city of Oftia 

 are behind the village. This was in former times a 

 trading place and a fea port, where the (hips un- 

 loaded the ^Egyptian marbles. Immenfe quanti- 

 ties of large blocks of Serpentino antico^ and fome 

 of Porfido roflo, are ft ill found near that place, 

 and fometimes transported thither by the Roman 

 artifts. But the old OJlia lies at prefent about an 

 Italian mile diftant from the fea ; and accordingly 

 all that ground has been, fince the times of the 

 Romans, gained from the fea. 



The place where the Tiber difembogues in the 

 fea is called Fitimicino. I did not go there ; but 

 know by Mr. Guettard that there are fome hills 

 of rolled pebbles, ferruminated as a coarfe brec- 

 cia, and blunted by rolling on the ancient more. 



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