[ 4&4 1 
IX. A Letter from Robert More Efq\ to the 
Prefident, containing feveral curious Re- 
marks in his Travels through Italy. 
SIR , 
2W June 14.T' FIND myfelf fo agreeably led through 
Italy by your Letter, which I re- 
ceived from Mr. Wat f on, that I cannot help adding 
to the Trouble I before gave you, this, with my 
hearty Thanks. 
When I got to Barcelona, I did not indeed find 
an Opportunity of going immediately to Naples , as 
you propofed j yet am I not forry that I was forced 
through the Souih of France, where are many Places, 
I thought, well worth feeing. 
When I got into Italy, it was moft convenient 
for me to hafVen to Rome ; where I fpent the Win- 
ter j and went early to meet the Spring at Naples ; 
from which I began your Route. 
You cannot more regret your own not having 
feen the natural Curiofities of that Place, than I do 
the Lofs thereby to the Public. The Voyage-writers 
do not feem to me fufficiently to have confidered 
the Force and Eflfetts of Steam, which may be 
formed by Springs of Water falling upon a vaft Sur- 
face of the fluid Lava, and talk too much of Sulphur, 
deceived by the Complexion of a Salt that covers, 
the Ground in fome Places there. In the Solfatara 
I held a cold Iron in the Vent, and there ran down 
it a Stream of Water. When I went down into 
the Crater on the Top of Vefuvius , it was full of 
Smoak. 
