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rf tillage), and the whole province the honourable title 

 of the Happy Country, . Campagna Felice, which it 

 has borne for hundreds of years : and it will be imme-, 

 diately conceived how eafy it muft be to live there. 



In general, the paradox which I hazarded above, 

 would give tife to numberlefs . reflections if any one 

 fhould undertake to compofe a ciccumftantial picture 

 of Naples ; to which indeed no inferior talents and the. 

 observations of many years would be requihte. It 

 would then perhaps be remarked ^ that the Lazaronij 

 as they are called, are on the whole not a jot more in- 

 active than the other elaffes of people. But it would 

 like wife be remarked, that all in their feveral ways do 

 not work merely that they may live, but that they may. 

 enjoy ; and that they . may find pleafure in exigence 

 even while they are at work. What may in a great 

 meafure contribute to this is, that the workmen, al- 

 mofl in every way, are far behind the northern arti- 

 zans ; that manufactures have not got a firm footing ; 

 that j excepting advocates . and phyficians, there are 

 but few men of letters, to. be met with, in comparifon 

 of the. great bulk. of the people, .who raife themfelves 

 to any . great degree of iT^erjt by their particular pur- 

 suits ; accordingly > there has, never been any painter of 

 great .fkill and peculiar taite, of. the Neapolitan fchool ; 

 hence too. the clergy are funk in indolence and flqth, 

 and fludy nothing but how. to enjoy their dignities and 

 their great poffellions in .fenfuaUty, pomp, and diffi- 

 pation. .. 



I know that this cenfure is faid to be too general; 

 and that the characteriftic. features of every clafs are 

 not to be thoroughly judged of but by an intimate in- 



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