Chap. Ill* Create (I Part of Irk h^. 553 
plainly difcover divers Parts of the Pavement of the 
Via Appia to have been cut through the Rock called 
Pifca MarinapfiKich. being near a hundred twenty fix Foot 
high, the ancient Cyphers are mark’d from ten to ten 
in a capital Roman Charader, on the Infide of the 
Rock, which is cut perpendicular ; fo that the Cypher 
on the Top is CXX. A certain Antiquary of Rome 
told me, that having meafured thefe Diftances, he found 
them almoft all unequal ; whence fome conjedurcj that 
thefe Marks were only made for the Direftion of the 
head Workman, without any farther Defign. Others 
are of Opinion, that the Diftance of each Cypher marks 
the Divifion of the Work of every ten Days, and that 
the Inequality muff arife from the greater or lefs Diffi- 
culty the Workmen met with in cutting the Stonc4 The 
Narrownefs of the Rock towards the Top, and the 
greater Diftance in Proportion to it, feem to confirm 
this Opinion, were it not that, according to this Sup- 
pofition, the firft Tenth mufl have been mark’d above, 
and the Cypher CXX at the Bottom, it being very pro- 
bable that they begun at the Top of the Rock. We 
continued our Journey over the Hills cover’d with 
Cork-trees, the Marfhes and the Sea on our Right j 
and thus keeping near the old Pavement, we arrived at 
Night at Fondi. In our Way, about three Miles be- 
yond lerracina^ we faw an old Wall, which, they told 
us, was the Boundary between the EccIefiafHcal State 
and the Kingdom of Naples. 
Fondi is feated in a flat Country, not far from a Lake 
bearing the fame Name, which extends itfelf into a 
large Compafs among the Marflies, betwixt the Hills 
and the Sea. The Eels of this Lake are highly cele- 
brated for their extraordinary Bignefs. This City was 
entirely ruined in 1534, by Hariaden Barbarojfa Ad- 
miral of the ^urkijh Fleet, the Hiftory of which is 
painted in the Church of the Annmciata. Fondi is pa- 
ved with the Stones taken from the Via Appia, but are 
not near fo exadly joined. Not far from the Caflle 
they fhew you a Garden which (they fay) belonged to 
Cicero. The Dominicans preferve, with a great deal of 
Veneration, the Chamber and Auditory of Thomas 
Aquinas, as alfo an old Orange-tree which he planted ; 
he died in 1273, fo that certainly this is the oldeft 
Orange-tree that ever was heard of. I remember they 
told us ftrange Things of this Tree, and among the 
refl, that its Leaves were of a quite different Shape 
from thofe of other Orange-trees ; but we could not 
find the leaft Difference, and were convinced by our 
own Eyes, that the Winter had not fpared the Oranges 
of this Tree, any more than the reft in other Places. 
After we had left Fondi, we travel’d for ten Miles upon 
the old Pavement to Mola, among the Mountains. 
Near Itru, a fmall City feated upon a Rock about 
fix Miles from Fondi, I took Notice of certain large 
Trees, called thereabouts Soucelle *, the Fruit is a Cod 
of half a Foot long, of the Thicknefs of a Bean-cod ; 
they dry them, and then they tafte like Honey or Man- 
na \ their true Name is Carohha. About Ten o’Clock in 
the Morning we came to Mola, a little City feated upon 
the Sea-fhore : Here are to be feen vaft Heaps of Mar- 
ble Stones and other Ruins, of Formice once a glorious 
Place, built by Antiphates King of the Lefirygons. 
The Air is infinitely fweet here, and the Hills on the 
Gulph between Cajeta and Mola produce moft excellent 
Fruits and Wines, as the Sea afords them vaft Quan- 
tities of Fifh. They fliewed us in particular the Ruins of 
a certain old Palace, which, they tell you, belonged to 
Cicero, and was for the moft part deftroyed by the Sea. 
The various Pieces of Mofaick, which are plainly to be 
diftinguilhed yet in feveral Parts, fufficiently teftify it 
was no ordinary Stru6lure ; and they affure you, with a 
great deal of Confidence hereabouts, that certain In- 
fcriptions have been taken from thence, which made it 
plainly appear to be Cicero^?,. 
It blowing then a very brisk Gale, we were at a 
Stand whether we fhould venture over the little Gulph 
( which is four Miles broad j to Ga'ieta, feated on the 
very Point of the Cape, directly oppofite to Mola 1 but 
at laft having refolved on the Paflage, we found Ga'ieta 
of a pretty large Extent, ftrong by Art and Nature, by 
y o L , IL Numb, 107, 
its difficult Accefs upon the high Rock. The Harbour 
is alfo very good. Here is to be feen the Tomb of 
Charles of BourboH, Conftable of France, who was flain 
in the Sacking of Roms by the Imperial Forces : And 
the ancient MaufotceUm of Munatius Flancus, commonly 
called the Tower of Orlando^ The Epitaph of the firft 
is as follows ; 
Audio Imperio, fuperatd Italia, devidlb Gallo, pontifice 
obfejfo, Roma capta^ Bourbonii hoc marmor cineres 
c online t. i. e. 
The Empire enlarged, Italy fubdued, the Gaul beaten, 
the Pope bejieged, Rome taken, the Ajhes of Bour- 
bon, \hy whom all this was done) this Marble con^ 
tains. 
From hence we were conducted to the Cleft Moun- 
tain called ha Spaccata, juft at the Edge of the Sea- 
fhore : It is feparated from the Top quite to the Bot- 
tom, where it is about four or five Foot afunder, but 
grows broader and broader towards the Height : The 
Concavities on one Side, and the Protuberances on the 
other, diredly oppofite to one another, feem to be evi- 
dent Marks of its being really divided, which, they fay, 
happened at the Time when our Saviour gave up the 
Ghoft. Upon one of the Infides of this Rock they fhew 
you the Print of a Hand, which foftened under it on 
the Challenge of a certain incredulous Perfon : Beneath 
it you fee this Diftich : 
Improba mens verum renuit, quod fama fatetur 
Credere : at hoc digitis faxa liquata probant* 
TF unbelieving Mind the Truth denies 
Tradition proves : The Rock new Proof fupplies. 
This Rock being a famous Pilgrimage, there are fmall 
Steps contrived, which lead down to a little Chapel 
dedicated to the holy Trinity. The Curate would have 
given us fome Pieces he cut off with a Hammer ; 
but finding us not willing to overcharge ourfelves with 
fuch Sort of Baggage, he feem’d to be offended at our 
Refufal, and at the lofing his own Pains. 
From thence taking our Way to the Cathedral, we 
were Ihew’d, among other Antiquities, a pretended 
Pillar of the Temple of Solomon ; four fuch-like are to 
be feen at the high Altar of St. MarVs Chapel at Ve- 
nice. Here is alfo a very ancient Veffel of white Mar- 
ble, faid to have been found at Mola, which now ferves 
inftead of a Font in the Baptiftery : It is a moft cu- 
rious Piece, and moft admirably preferved i Its Shape 
refembles a Bell about four Foot high, fupported by 
four Lyons of the fame Materials. The Bajfo relief 
is efteemed excellent Workmanfhip, efpecially the little 
Bacchus riling out of JupitePs Thigh, put by Mercury 
into the Hands of Ino. All round it you fee Satyrs 
and Bacchanals, and among the reft a Faunus playing 
on two Pipes at once, as I have feen the Shepherds do 
in Tyrol -, the Workman’s Name is engraven on the 
Veffel, XAAnmN aohnaios EnoiHXE. Not far from the 
Garden of the Francifcans, call’d Zoccolanti, is a Bufli of 
Thorns, which has fcarce any Pricks, which they fay 
has grown thus ever fince St. Francis rowl’d himfelf 
there to extinguifli his Luft. Near the Place called 
Della Foglia, they fliew you where he preached to the 
Fifh. 
As you go up by the little Door of the Epifcopal 
Palace, over-againft the Altar of the Holy Sacrament, 
there is a Marble Statue of about four Palms high, re- 
prefenting an old Man fetting his Feet upon a little 
Dog, underneath which is a Death’s Head, and a Ser- 
pent whofe Tail is placed on the Dog, wraps itfeif 
about the old Man, and refts on his Head, and has an 
Eagle on his. This is generally fuppofed to be the 
Statue of ABfculapius, with his Serpent, the Dog figni- 
fying Vigilance required in a Phyfician, and the Eagle 
the Empire of God % the Death’s Head is an Emblem 
of human Nature, fubjed to that Deity, or the Objeft 
of the Art of Phyfick. After a fliort Stay at Gdieta, 
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