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I eat often their young Frogs, Tortoifes.and Snails, 
ferved up with Oyl and Pepper, which agreed well with 
me : fo did their Sea Urchins, and the Urtica Marina, (cal- 
led Sea Geliy or Blubber , tho’itbe an Animal, having a 
true Heart, and Vefiels for the Circulation of Fluids) 
Some of their Thirties are no ungrateful Sallee. 
I law fome Vitriol Works about Siena, Rome and Puz- 
zuolo ; thofe of Alum only about Civita Vecchia. Amongft 
the Sands of the Adriatic Sea I obferv’d many white, 
clear, fliining Flints ; which they told me were carried to 
Venice, to make the fine Chryftal Glafs at Mur an. 
Upon reading our ingenious Dr. Mufgrave, de Geta Bri- 
tan. & Synop. Chronology . Dom. Sever. I confulted my 
Diary taken at Rome. The Magnificent Septizonium fi- 
gur'd by him flood near the Foot of the Palatine Hill, on 
the E.S.E . fide, overlooking the Via Appia and the 
Circus Maximus, the Amphitheatre of Titus being near 
on the other Side. By the number of Portico's (which 
were Seven) it might contain Multitudes of People, as 
Spectators of the Triumphal Entries and the publick 
Games. But I would not be thought to differ from our 
Learned Countryman, who with good Authority, thinks 
it the Sepulchretum of that Imperial Family ; tho’ moft of 
the Ancient Mau[oUums ,{ at leart thofe I faw) were Roton - 
das , or Columbaria s, for the more convenient placing the 
Urns of the Kindred ; as that of Augufhis near the Cam - 
pus Martius ; that of Adrian on the other Bank of the 
Tyber ; thofe faid to be of Scipio, of Cicero , and Munatius 
Plancus, near Gaieta and the Via Appia ; that of Virgil 
oa the fide of Mount Pauftlippus ; that of C. Metella and 
fome others on the Via Flaminia. Some were Pyramidal 
as that of Ccfiius in the Wall of Rome, and a few others 
on the public Roads. This Septizonium Severi feems to 
differ from the rert of thofe Ancient Sepulchretum s, which 
might 
