LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 599 



at Yerona, and in its vicinity. Scipio Mazella gives the inscriptions 

 at Puteoli and Cumse. Franciscus Lombardus describes at great 

 length the Baths at Puteoli and Baise, and those of ^naria, naming 

 the medicinal properties of each. It appears from this treatise that 

 there was a great rivalry among the Baths. One at Puteoli was 

 named Balneum Olei Petrolii, because it yielded petroleum — rock 

 oil, as we are accustomed to speak. The virtues of this bath are 

 thus enumerated : — 



Hoc vitium leprae, genus hoc serpiginis omne 



Tollit, et e stomacho phlegmata salsa fugat. 

 Extinguit bilim, groasos subtiliit artus, <fec. &c. 

 Vescicam curat quoties urina negatur ; 



Nulla potest tnelior renibus esse salus, 

 Si lapides ullos, seu si patiantur arenam, 



Quselibet a morbo membra gravata juvat, &c. 



(It may be remembered that years ago — long before petroleum was 

 used for lighting purposes — this mineral fluid was imported here from 

 the State of New York, and sold in bottles as a medicinal liniment, 

 under the name of Seneca oil, so-called, it was reported, because the 

 Seneca Indians, across the lake, had been accustomed to apply it 

 with great effect to themselves.) 



Although there is no formal account of Rome in the folio of 

 Cambierius, there is incidentally a curious reference made by 

 Bernardus Saccus to the troublesomeness of the mosquitoes in that 

 city in his day, which may recall to ourselves experiences of our 

 own ill the primitive times. In summer, Saccus says, "prodeunt 

 in tenebris infensse cicindulse, vulgo cicinsulse dictfe, quas ego vel 

 sucindulas, a sugendo, vel k vocis zincino stridore cincinulas scribendas 

 putarem. Hsec enim insectse," Saccus continues, " vix cubili allato 

 lumine simul adsunt, ac summisso sibilo improbo osculo nobis dor- 

 mientibus insident, inflictoque fronti vulnere, humano cruore satur^ 

 sub lucem abeuiit, latentque rursus nocte reversurse. Gloriare nunc 

 rerum tuarum magnitudine, Roma!" exclaims Saccus, "quando 

 tantillum animal noctes tibi tuisque Patriciis infestas facit, bellumque 

 sine telo ciet ! "—Almost the whole of the volume is printed in the 

 Italic character. Let into the title-page is a large and very spirited 

 woodcut of Cambierius's impresa or device : a lion and unicorn 

 furiously contending against each other, without the intervention 

 of a shield of arms between them. On the inside of the cover 

 appears the book-plate of Christ Church, Oxford, bearing the arms 



