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borious paflage over the horrid crags anil 

 precipices of one of the abyfles of his 

 Hell. 



** E profequcndo la folinga via 

 Fra le fchegge, e tra rocchi de lo fcogllo^ 

 Lo pic fenza la man non fi fpedia." 



«' And flill along the folitary way, 



" Proceeding over rocks and precipices, 



*' The foot without the hand no progrefs made." 



And though the fatigue in again de* 

 fcending to the fea might be lefs, the dan- 

 ger was equal, if not greater, from the un- 

 liable and flippery nature of thefe deceitful 

 places. 



Having completed the circuit of the 

 fhores of Alicuda on the fourteenth of Oc- 

 tober, I appropriated the next day to the 

 examination of the interior part of the 

 iiland. I could, however, only make my re- 

 fearches in the part which fronts the call 

 and fouth-eaft ; the remainder being inac- 

 ceflible from the dreadful crags and preci- 

 pices already mentioned. 



When 



