2OO TRAVELS THROUGH 



lowing paflage. " Nunciatum eft regi patribufque 

 " in monte Albano lapides pluifle. Miflis ad 

 (t vifendum id prodigium in confpe&u cecidere 

 " lapides. Vifi etiam audire vocem ingentem ex 

 <f fummi cacuminis luco." This lucvjs was at 

 the top of monte Cavo. 



During the fiege of Veja, 398 before the Chrif- 

 tian sera, the lake of Albano overflowed the coun- 

 try, and caufed a pernicious inundation. The 

 Oracle of Delphi anfwered, upon demand, that 

 a draining ought to be made. If they did 

 fo, it cannot be the canal, which is ftill to 

 be feen, fince it drains the lake under the level, 

 which was requifite to water by that lake the fields 

 at Alba^ as they ufed to do according to Dionyfius 

 of Hallcarnaffus. who lived under Anguftus. There- 

 fore the prefent canal is rather to be afcribed to the 

 fuccefibrs of Auguftus. The depth of Lago d* 

 Albano is faid to be three hundred and fixty feet. 

 There is plenty of large eels in it, and the fiihcry 

 rented by a fifherman. Near it are the remains 

 of a temple of Diana. Another belonging to. 

 that goddefs was formerly near Lago di Nemi. 



I went from monte Cavo by Genfano to Rezia or 

 Ricda^ in former times Aricia\ and returned thence 

 by a fine country over the .gentle Hoping of a. 

 volcanic hill,; which, in an amphitheatrical form, 

 jpclofes a part of the plain over Albano, Marina, 



