ITALY. LETTER XXII. 



LETTER XXII. 



Genoa, June 16, 1772. 



1C A M E from Leghorn to this place by 

 water along a mere, which not only offers a 

 great many picturefque and agreeable rocks and 

 landfcapes, planted with olive-trees, but is like- 

 wife remarkable on account of Mafia di Carrara, 

 Seravezza, Porto Venere, Seftri di Levante, and 

 Lavagna. I went but now and then on (hore. 

 I mould have wiflied to make the whole way by 

 land, but the accounts of its nature checked 

 my eagernefs. The whole more confifts of high 

 towering calcareous rocks, extremely fteep to- 

 wards the fea, and equally rapid towards the land. 

 On the top of this ftrait ridge is a foot-path, 

 running over feparated loofe (tones, and fo very 

 fmall, that the Humbling of the mule would throw 

 one down into the fea, or over the tremendous 

 precipices on the land-fide. Every rain produces 

 in the deeper ravins of thefe hills violent and rapid 



torrents, 



