Chap. Ill, Create ft: Pat 
without Infcriptions, except that the Arch ftill retains a 
few Charafters. The mod remarkable Thing here is,, 
the Aquadud, which joins the Mountain of St. Francis 
to that of Spoleio. It is a Gothick Work, and remains 
entire and ufeful to this Day : Its Length is three hun- 
dred and fifty Paces, and its Height, from the Bottom 
of the Valley, two hundred and thirty. 
Three Miles beyond Spoleto we pafsM the higheft 
Mountain hereabouts, called Semma j and after we had 
travePd about five or fix Miles among the barren. 
Rocks, we found the fucceeding Hills, for four or five 
Miles, covered with Lawrels, wild Olive Trees, Tama- 
rinds, Junipers, ever-green Oaks, and divers other fem- 
pervirent Trees and Shrubs, which is very pleafant. 
At our Approach to Terni^ the Mountains, which had 
cnclofed us in a ftreight Paflage upon the Brink of a 
Torrent, which runs at the Bottom of the Valley, ex- 
tended themfelves by Degrees to a great Forefl of Olive- 
trees laden with Fruit, which they generally fuffer to 
hang till they drop off themfelves : The Olives for 
Pickling are gathered before they are ripe, and their 
Bitternefs is removed by Art ; the, ripe are as bitter as 
the green ones, notwithffanding which they produce the 
fweeteft Liquor that can be imagined. 
From this Wood of Olives we travePd for a Mile in 
an agreeable Plain, which brought us to Terni, feated 
upon the River Nera, in a moft fruitful Country. This 
City is not fo large in Compafs as Spoleto^ but much 
more populous ; they fell Abundance of Oyl : We were 
told, that during fix Months of the Year they make 
here an hundred Charges of Oil every Day, each Charge 
weighing fix hundred Pounds, and is generally fold at 
the Rate of twelve EngUJh Crowns. By an infeription 
to be feen on the Porch of the Seminary near the Ca- 
thedral, it appears, that it may contend for its Anti- 
quity with Rome itfelf ; the Infeription being made for 
^Tiberius, is dated thus ; 
Fojt Inter amnam conditam DCCIIII, 
/ 
^erni being anciently called Interamna and Interamnium, 
from its Situation inter amnes, or the two Branches of 
the River that waters it. On the Bridge is to be feen 
another Infeription, put there in the Time of Pope Ur- 
ban the Eighth, intimating, that this Bridge was built 
by Pompey the Great. About three Miles from Terni 
is the famous Waterfal of Mount del Marmore ; the 
Way that leads up to it is very rocky, fo that we were 
forced to alight often from our Horfes. By the Way 
we obferved, on t^ South Side of the Mountain, di- 
vers Corners, which never felt the Rigour of the Win- 
ter-Seafon, and among the Bufto’s Abundance of Jef- 
mins^ Lawrels, Myrtles, Rofemary as frefh then (in Fe- 
bruary') as they are with us in April. 
As v/e were afeending the Hill Papinio, we obferved, 
in a Valley near the Bank of a River, a Trad of Ground 
planted with at leaf: feven hundred Orange-trees, a 
Thing rarely to be feen in the open Field, where they 
have no Shelter. But to return to our Catarad. The 
River Falerio has its Rife among the Mountains, twelve 
or thirteen Miles from the Place where the Water falls 
down. At about nine Miles from its head Spring it 
falls into the Lake of Luco, whence continuinc-* its Cur- 
rent, with a much larger Stream than before, to a Plain, 
which, in refped of the Depth below it, proves a 
Mountain, it falls with great Force down from a craggy 
Rock three hundred Paces high, into the Concavity of 
another Rock underneath it, againft which the Waters 
break with fuch a violent Agitation, that it rifes like a 
Cloud of Dull; twice as high as the Fall, and occafions 
a Kind of perpetual Rain in all the adjacent Parts : 
The Repercuffion of the Sun-beams in this pulverized 
Water produces an infinite Number of Rainbows, ac- 
cording to the various rebounding and fpurting of this 
watery Cioud, the Sight whereof fills the Spedators with 
Amazement ; at laft all thefe Waters gather into an 
Abyfs, occafioned by the continual Falling down of the 
Waters, and from thence break forth with incredible 
Force through the Crevices of divers Rocks, and fo conti- 
nuing their Courfe with a murmuring Noife a little fur- 
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ther, at laft join themfelves with the little River Nera^ 
which is much enlarged by the AcCeftlon of thefe 
Waters. 
From Ferni to Narni you travel for feVen Miles thro* 
a plain and fertile Country ; it affords an indifferent 
good Profped from the adjacent Hills on the Side 
you come from Ferni, but deceives you in your Ex- 
pedation after you come into it, being in a Manner 
deftitute of Inhabitants, with narrow dirty Streets, and 
fo uneven, that you cannot go five Steps without af- 
eending or defeending ; and their Paper Windows 
make a verry beggarly ftiow. I took Notice en pajfant 
of two tolerable handfome Fountains of Brals. The 
Emperor Nerva was a native of this City. A little 
before you enter the City, you fee the Ruins of a 
Bridge, faid to have been built under the Reign of Au- 
gustus : It is admirable both for its Height and Struc- 
ture, becaufe, after having joined the Mountain of 
Spoleto to another neighbouring Mount, it ends in the 
high Road towards Pemfa. The vaft Pieces of Marble, 
which are the Materials of this Bridge, are joined to- 
gether without any Cement or Iron- work : It hath four 
or five Arches, of which only one remains entire, the 
Top of the Mould of the largeft being broken. I 
was credibly inform’d, that this Arch is a hundred and 
feventy Foot in Extent, which, if fo, far exceeds the ce- 
lebrated Bridge of Rialto. 
We had no fooner left Narni, but we found our- 
felves againfamong the Mountains. Thus traveling on 
for eight Mile?, we came to the Town of Otricoli, near 
which, at the Entrance of a Plain, are to be feen the 
Ruins of the ancient Ocriculum ; but we could find no*’ 
thing worth our Obfervation among them. Not long 
after we paffed the Fyber over a Stone Bridge that owes 
its Foundation to Sixtus V. and its Perfedion to Ur- 
ban VIII. as the Infeription tells you. We came very 
late to Citta Cajiellana, and departed again early in 
the Morning, this Place having nothing that could in- 
vite us to ftay therein. Near to Regnano we found the 
old Via Flaminia, with its Pavement entire, having not 
perceived any Footfteps of it before fince we left Ri- 
mini, to which Place it extended itfelf, as ancient Au- 
thors inform us. After we had dined at CaStel Nuova^ 
an inconfiderable Place as well as Regnano, we con- 
tinued our Journey to Rome, through an infinite Num- 
ber of ancient Ruins ; but moft of the Country lay 
untill’d, and almoft deftitute of Inhabitants. Having 
repafs’d the Fyber by the Pons Milvius, (as the ancient 
Authors call it) fince by Corruption call’d Ponte Molle^ 
we came upon a paved Way, which brought us be- 
twixt many Gardens and Summer-feats, to the famous 
City of Rome. 
9. After we had rambled two or three Days about 
Rome, good Company invited us to haften our intend- 
ed Journey for Naples, which is reckon’d eight Days 
diftant from Rome. About twelve Miles from^this City 
we came to Marino, a great Town now belonging to 
the Prince Colonna, and formerly known by the. Name 
of Villa Mariana. From Marino we afeended a rocky 
Mountain, where we faw nothing but Wood and 
Boufflos : Of the Lake of Cajiel Gandolfo, which we 
coafted near an Hour, we ftiall have Occafion to fpeak 
in our Return. About five Miles after we had left the 
Lake, at the Defcent of the Mountain, we difeovered 
the Sea, and on our Right Hand, on a little Hillock, 
the City call’d Citta de la Vigna, being the ancient La- 
nuvium, a Municipal City, which gave Birth to Anto- 
ninus Pius, but not the Lavinium of ^neas, according 
to the common Opinion : Lavina littora is twelve Miles 
thence, towards Prattica. 
It was late before we reached Velitri, a little City 
feated on a Hill, and furrounded by a Wall % it was 
anciently a confiderable Place, when it durft ftrivewith 
Rome itfelf, but now makes a very indifferent Figure* 
The People here are generally of Opinion, that Au- 
gujiusyt^^ a Native of this City ; and one of the Ser- 
vants in the Inn was fo communicative as to tell us Ib | 
but being ask’d who that Augustus he anfwer’d. He 
was the firft Chriftian Emperor ; for you muft obferve, 
that nothing is more common in Vditri, among th® 
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