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again employs the induftry of mankind in carrying 

 back again the wafle and refufe of the kitchens, for 

 accelerating the circle of vegetation. From the incre- 

 dible confumption of vegetables, the ftalks and leaves 



cauliflowers, brocoli, artichokes, cabbages, fallad, 

 garlic, really make a great part of the neapolitan com- 

 poll: ; all this is therefore carefully looked after. Two 

 large pliant panniers hang acrofs the afs, and are not 

 only filled quite to the top, but are piled up with great 

 art till the heaps meet over the back of the beaft. No 

 garden can fubfifr. without one or more of thefe ufeful 

 animals. A fervant, a lad, and frequently the mailer 

 himfelf, go backwards and forwards as often as they 

 can in the day, as they find the city at all hours a 

 mine of wealth. How attentive thefe collectors are to 

 the dung of horfes and mules may eafily be imagined. 

 Very reluctantly do they leave the Hxeets at the coming 

 on of night ; and the gentry who return from the opera 

 after midnight, little think, that already before day- 

 break, forne diligent man is carefully tracing the fteps 

 of their horfes. I have been credibly allured, that, a 

 couple of thefe people, who joining together to buy an 

 afs, hire themfelvcs to a capital proprietor of cabbage^ 

 grounds, by perfevering induitry in this happy cli- 

 mate, where vegetation is never interrupted, will foon 

 be in a condition to purchafe a considerable pofTeffion 

 for themfelves. 



It would lead me too far out of my way, were I here 

 to fpeak of the various wares and commodities, and 

 the different kinds of traffic, that are feen with fatis- 

 facYion in Naples as well as in other places ; but I mult 

 take notice of the venders that ply the ftreets, as it 



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