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to turn him out to graze ; and to this end they pitched 

 upon a meadow not far from Rome* about feven or 

 eight englifh miles from the porta del popolo. Scarcely 

 had he been here three days, but the animal had re- 

 gained his former health and vigour. Every man was 

 curious to learn what herbs had been ufed to effect this 

 cure; and it was at length difcovered, that a well he 

 had chofe of himfelf to drink from, the water whereof 

 was naturally of a purgative quality, had reftored him 

 to health. Pope Alexander VII. caufed it immediately 

 to be faced with marble; and the fame of its healing 

 virtues was foon fpread through all the provinces of 

 Italy. In the months of July, Auguft, and September, 

 the refort of people for uling the water is extremely 

 great. Michael Angelo has feized the moment when 

 the concourfe is the moft numerous. The anecdote 

 jufl: related is reprefented in the piece ; and human 

 figures to the number of between a hundred and thirty 

 and a hundred and forty, whereof fome are eight, others 

 ten, and others twelve inches high, defcriptive of the 

 coftume and features of the feveral peuplades of Italy, 

 form a very agreeable group. The picture is five feet 

 nine inches wide, and four feet one inch in height. 



MANSERS AKB CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE IN ANB 



ABOUT NAPLES. 



A Remarkable air of gaiety ftrikes one every mo- 

 ment here, which infpires the ftranger with partici- 

 pating pleafure. The flowers and fruitb of a thoufand 

 brilliant dyes with which nature prefents them, feem 

 to invite mankind to adorn themfelves and all their 

 Utenfils as much as poffible with the like glowing co- 



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