308 TOUR THROUGH ITALY. [1804. 



you see them making by bits first a horse's head, 

 and so on which is not the idea. The figure of the 

 Deity standing here is very fine. "Moses striking 

 the Kock," noble. 



The stanze suffered much during the sack of Borne 

 by the Constable Bourbon. The troops lighting fires 

 in the rooms greatly injured the paintings, which 

 were afterwards carefully cleaned by Carlo Maratti 

 about the end of the seventeenth century. 



Left Home and arrived at Terni on the llth of 

 November; at Pesaro on the 13th. Fano and Sini- 

 gaglia, 16th and 17th, fortunately escaping the 

 plague quarantine, which I expected would have de- 

 tained me at Ancona. By sea to Trieste, and thence 

 to Vienna. On the 8th of January, visited Presburg, 

 returning to Vienna, which I left, and arrived at 

 Prague on the 23d ; and from thence to London. 



