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lived there in the Summer- months, went from one place to 
nother,and returned to Rom^^ without making mention of any, 
fuch danger* Wherefore thatGountry not being unwhole- 
fome of its own Nature,but from adventitious caufes, it is pro- 
bablejthat thofe maybe remov'd 5 as hath beenpropofed by 
Baft/Jia Dopitfs^ in hii> Book Rejiituencla Saluhritate ^gri 
This Author having in the beginning delivered fome Con- 
fideraiions touching the Air of /^^^^/^jand fhew'd, that it never 
was^norisjinfalubrious^as 'tis thought 5 proceeds to that of the 
Country ^^^^/i Rome, and 
F/V/^jdefcribes both the Antient and Pre fent ftate and dif, 
pofition oLthe Roman Campagne^ noting the fituation of 
Ij3any antient places 3 feveral particulars about the Greatnefs 
andCompafs of the City of and the^ Number of its Ir^- 
habitants. JuJius Lrpf 10^ out of his great partiality to Old 
Romej believed^ there were in it four Millions of men 5 but 
this Author thinks it much, if there was fo much as one Mib 
lion* 
Secofidlyy he examines the cau(es, which render this Ro- 
iKJan Territory fouphealthfulU affigning them to be theSou^ 
thern Winds reigning there 5 the many ftanding Waters^ the 
lownefs of the (hore 5 the inconftancy of the Weather $ and 
t^e excelEveheat of the Summer. 
Thirdly^ he difcourfes of the Remedies 5 efteeming that^ 
as the in(alubrity:pf that Gampagne began only after it was 
wafted and. difpeopled, by^the incurfions of thofe Barbarous 
Nationsj that invaded /^^/y 5 and deftroyed the habitations 
that were, there 5 fo the Air would recover its former good 
temperaturejif that Country were again Inhabited, and tilled 
as before, Soxh^it^ faith he^ thofe Fields hav€ no other no- 
xiGufnels from Nature) buttheexceis of heat and moifture, 
and a fudden change of Winds ^ things, which indeed are apt 
tpincommodr^^ butnottqmake extraordinarily (ick, much 
kis kill the Inhabitants. And then, as to the evils that have 
h^^^ p(;Qd&^ he thinks it an eafi^ 
