Chap, lii. through the State 
Row ; and the Hill, even on that Side where the 
Walls (lands, is fo deep, that ic is inaccefllble, except 
by the Afcents ; neither are there any Hills near it, ex- 
cept what are much lower than that whereon the City 
Hands, The Streets of the City are narrow, and their 
Houfes but meanly built ; they have two Cloyfters 
■within the Walls, one belonging to the Difcalcate 
Francifcans^ the other to the Nuns of the Order of St. 
Clara^ and in the Suburb a Convent of the Capuchins ; 
befides that, the Servitee have a very fair Monaftery not 
above a Mile from the City, which has its own Bifhop, 
and has always a Proteblor at Rome^ who at prefent is 
Cardinal Barberini, whom they fometimes prefent with 
fome Cheefes and Mufcatella Wine, which grows very 
well hereabouts, and is in great Efteem with the Italian 
Nobility, They have no Cows, but Goats and Sheep 
in Abundance. Their Government is adminiftred by a 
Council of forty five, which they call Corpo di Prencipe •, 
of thefe fifteen are Gentlemen, (of which they have 
about twenty Families) fifteen Artifans and fifteen Coun- 
trymen, who continue for their Lives, and when one 
dies, another is chofen in his Stead, by two thirds of 
the Votes *, in the Place of a Gentleman, a Gentleman, 
and fo with the reft. 
Feb. 3. We left Rimini^ and taking our Way to R(t- 
•venna^ pafled that renown’d Bridge over the River Ri- 
mno^ begun by Auguflus., but brought to Perfedion by 
Tiberius^ the Stones of which, they fay, are join’d to- 
gether without any Cement : Certain it is, that the 
Sides of it are of vaft Stones as high as the Borders, 
and of a proportionable Breadth, without any Mortar 
or Cement betwixt them that I could fee : It has a large 
infeription, intimating when and by whom it was built. 
About fifteen Miles from Rimini we pafs’d through 
Cefenatico^ and fifteen Miles further thro’ Cervia^ a poor 
City, having nothing to boaft on but the Title of an 
Archbifiiop’s See. All the Way from Cervia, till 
within two or three Miles of Ravenna., we travell’d near 
a vaft Pinewood on the right Hand of us, call’d Pigneda., 
and, if we may credit Schottus, bears Fruit enough to 
ferve all Italy. The City of Ravenna lies enclos’d be- 
twixt two Rivers, vm. the Bedejis and Montone., one 
running on one, and the fecond on the other Side. Ic 
is of a great Circumference, but meanly built : It has 
five Gates, and an old Caftle of Brick, and three fair 
Convents, wz. i\\tClaJfe,hd[Qn^m^t\\t MonachiClaJfenfes i 
the fecond call’d the Porto., from its being dedicated to 
St. Maria Portuenjis, belonging to the Canonici regulares 
Lateranenfes ; and the third to the Benediliine Monks, 
dedicated to St. Vitale, the Church of the laft being a 
double O^lagon, the one concentrical to and enclos’d 
within the other ; they fay it was built by Jujlinian, 
Thefe Monks fliewed us allb two Marble Pillars, add- 
ing that the Venetians had offer’d their Weight in Sil- 
ver for them : They were produced at firft by an Heap 
of fmall Flints or Pebbles united into one Body by a 
Cement petrefied as hard as the Flints themfelves, and 
capable of Politure, which Cement, it is probable, 
might be the Sediment of the fame Stones mixt with 
a Fluid, and feparated from thence. I have feen the 
like in the Library at Zurich, and at Verona, in our 
Ladies Chapel, in the Garden of Signior Horatia Giujii. 
To the fame Convent alfo belongs the little round Church 
fcall’d the Rotunda) of the Virgin Mary, a Quarter of 
a Mile without the City, the Roof whereof being four- 
teen ordinary Paces in Diameter, yet is made of one Stone, 
having in the midft a round Hole to let in the Light ; 
Upon the Top of this Church ftood in former Ages the 
Monument of Pheodoricus a Gotbick King, of Porphyry, 
who is fuppos’d to have built it ; this Monument is as yet 
to be feen in the Wall of the Monaftery of the Succolanti 
or barefooted Franeijeans, with this Infeription : 
Vos hoc Porphyriacum ol. Pbeodorici Gottor. imp. cineres 
in Rotundas apice recondens, hue Petro Donato Cajio 
Narnien. prafule favente tranjlatum ad per ennem me- 
moriam Sapientes Reip. Rav. PP.C, MDLXIIL 
This Convent is one of the faireft I met with be- 
longing to this Order 5 and their Church dedicated to 
^Venice, ^c. 68| 
f • - 
St, Apollinaris is remarkable, both for the double Ro# 
of Marble Pillars brought from Confianlinople by Phe-- 
odoricus, and the ancient Mofaick Work in the Walls^. 
Of the fame Mofaick Work we faw the Figures of the. 
ArChbiftiops of Ravenna in the Cathedral, eleven of 
them having a Dove ftanding upon their Heads, being 
chofen by a Dove alighting upon their. Heads, if we 
will credit Schottus. Not far from the Convent of the 
Francifeans you fee the Arch ereded in Memory of the 
famous Poet Dante, with his Effigies under it, and twd 
inferiptions in Latin Verfe underneath, faid to have 
been made by himlelf, but fo flenderly done, that had 
he not compos’d better in Italian, he could fcarce have 
challeng’d a Place among the famous Poetsi This 
City has fcarce any Thing to boaft of now but its An- 
tiquity, being very ill peopled, ill ferv’d with Fiffi, not- 
withftanding its Vicinity to the Sea, ill provided with 
Inns, and worfe with Water, which verifies the old 
Saying of the Poet, Sit cijlerna mihi quam vinea maU 
Ravenna, the Water being all brackifh. In this Jour- 
ney from Rome to Venice we were very fenfible of the 
Difference in the Air bn both Sides of the Appennine 
Mountains, being very v/arm on the other, whereas oil 
this Side we found it as cold as it is in Winter with us, 
which that it proceeded not from any Change of Wea- 
ther, we were fufficiently affur’d of, not only by En- 
quiry, but alfo becaufe we found Snow lying in many 
Places in the low Grounds, which was melted even on 
the Hills of the other Side : The true Reafon of it, I 
think is the Heighth of this Ridge of Mountains, 
which reaching above the lower Region of the Air 
where the Sun-beams are reflebled, hinders the Mixture 
of the warm Southerly and Weftern, with the cold 
Northerly and Eaftern Air and flops the free Paffage 
of the South and Weft Winds on one Hand, which 
would carry the warm Vapours into the other Part, as 
they prevent the cold North and Eaft Winds from 
tempering the Heat beyond thefe Mountains ; in the 
fame Manner as fome Travellers relate of a cer- 
tain mountainous Ridge in the Eafi-Indies, ori 
one Side vv'hereof it is Summer when it is Winter on 
the other. 
Feb. 5. We travelled from Ravenna along the Bank 
of the River Montone, till within four or five Miles of 
Faenza, which is twenty long Miles from Ravenna^ 
Faenza is a little neat City, furrounded with a ftrong 
brick Wall, but fomewhat out of Repair, it is famous 
for the beft Earthen Ware in Italy. On St. PhomaP% 
Day yearly all the Gentlemen meet to chufe Magiftrates, 
viz. nine Senators and a Prefident whom they ftile Prior 
for every Month, fo that they have twelve different Se- 
nates throughout the Year. From hence we travell’d 
ten Miles to Imola, half a Mile fhort of which we ferri- 
ed over the River Senio. Imola (Forum Cornelii) is not 
fo big as Faenza, yet has a fair Piazza with a Cloyfter 
on one Side. From hence we continued our Journey 
upon the Via Mmilia to Bologna, Feb. 6. Here they 
have a Way of boiling their Wines, to keep them bet- 
ter than if left cold. The firft which they Qpil Vino 
Cotto, appear’d to us much ftronger than the other 
which they call Vino Crudo. 
Feb. 7. Taking the Florentine Procacclo’s Boat to Ve- 
nice, we paffed through nine Softegni or Locks to MalAU 
where we ffiifted our Boat, going down from a higher 
to a lower Channel, which brought us to Ferrara, forty 
five Miles diftant from Bologna. From Ferrara we 
were tow’d by a Horfe through an artificial Channel as 
far as Ponte, where entring the River Po, we chang’d 
our Boat again, and were row’d down the Stream 
twenty feven Miles to Corbola, where entring the Vene- 
tian Territories, we were oblig’d once more to change 
in Order to take a Venetian Boat. We had fcarce gone 
two or three Miles further down the Po, when ftriking 
. into a Channel to the Left, we paffed a Sluce near Lo- 
reo, and proceeding fifteen Miles further, pafs’d near to 
Chioza, and Palejirina, a large Place built among the La- 
gune, ftanding upon the Lido, entring into the Lagune 
at the Haven of Malamocco, and arrived at Venice^ 
Feb. 9. of which we have given an Account already. 
