ITALY. LETTER XXVI. 



LETTER XXVI. 



Regenfburgb, Sept. 5, 1772. 



T WENT from Verona through Tirol, a 

 * country, whofe old and remarkable mines are 

 better known to you than they might be to 

 a paffenger who never flopped in it. Tirol, 

 though mountainous, is however a fine agree- 

 ble and fertile tract of land. The candour and 

 civility of its inhabitants, and the clean and pro- 

 per accommodation which travellers meet with at 

 inns, recommend it to every flranger. As far as 

 Erixen t the agriculture refembled that of Italy, 

 and confided of grapes and maize, figs and mul- 

 berries, but no olive-trees. Maize is planted even 

 in the vicinity of Augfbourg. 



I faw from Verona up to Cbiufa a plain flat 

 country. Cbiufa is a fteep limeftone-hill. 



Behind Volarni I found calcareous hills ; firft, 



white ones, whofe fragments fkirted the road ; 



Y 2 after- 



