OP THE REPUBLIC OP GENOA. 



all forts of commodities are to be hired. The harbour is 

 very deep, and commodious for the landing of goods. 

 ' There is no city in Italy where are feen fo many no- 

 ble edifices faced with marble, as at Genoa. That of 

 the family of Doria, is fuperbly diftinguifhed from the 

 reft. It is provided with a magnificent garden, in 

 which is a colonade of 250 feet in length ; making an 

 agreeable walk in rainy weather. The other fumptuous 

 palaces are thofe of the noble houfes of Balbi, Brignoli, 

 Durazzo, Spinola, and Palavicini. As the hills about 

 Genoa are rich in marble, it is no wonder that many 

 of their buildings are of that material. But they are 

 likewife adorned with picture galleries that are well 

 worthy the inflection of the curious, and with frefco 

 .paintings by the moft celebrated matters* Almoft 

 every houfe has its garden on the terrace, by which it 

 is covered inftead of a roof. Here is the orangery, 

 with flowers of all kinds in pots and tubs, frequented 

 every evening by the inhabitants for the lake of en- 

 joying the frefh breezes from the fea. Hence it may be 

 faid of Genoa, as it was of Babylon, that their gardens 

 hang in the air. 



Public magazines of corn, wine, and oil are kept at 

 Genoa, which are at all times furnifhed with a flock fuf- 

 ficient for one year. Every inhabitant mutt take his 

 provilion from thefe. As thefe articles of life are al- 

 moft all brought hither' from Africa, Sicily, and Lom- 

 bardy, and a peculiar, magiftrate who has the luperin- 

 tendence over them," mutt be maintained, they are 

 here much dearer than in other parts of Italy ; which 

 - may be likewife a main reafon of the frugal mode of 

 living in practife among the inhabitants. 



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