CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. lxv 



unbroken blisters on it, I forced the wounded 

 one into the other, and off we started for Rome, 

 which we reached after a very uncomfortable 

 walk. The injured foot had two months' con- 

 finement to the sofa before the damage was 

 repaired. It was this unfortunate adventure 

 which gave rise to the story of my walking 

 barefooted into Rome, and wdiich gained me a 

 reputation by no means merited on my part. 



When we left the shores of England, we de- 

 termined to spend two years in Rome, reserv- 

 ing to ourselves the privilege of retiring from 

 it when the unwholesome season would cause 

 a longer stay there, neither safe nor any ways 

 agreeable. We set apart this period for a visit 

 to Naples, as it would be a good opportunity 

 to see the liquefaction of the blood of St. Janu- 

 arius, a prodigy which has given rise, almost 

 time out of mind, to every possible conjecture 

 throughout the whole of civilised Europe. But 

 of this more hereafter ; sufficient to say for the 

 present, that we went to Naples and witnessed 

 the liquefaction. 



Rome, immortal Rome, replete with every 

 thing that can instruct and please, is the resort 

 of travellers from all parts of the known world, 



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