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Smoak. Yet I did not perceive it fuffbeating, and 
thought it Steam. The Guides indeed tell the Eng- 
lifb , that a Milorde of their Country was fuffocatcd 
there : Being asked his name, they think it was my 
Lord Blinio. That which they call Sulphur, when 
I got it home, ran per deliquinm. 
I owe to you the feeing of Beneventum ; a Place 
full of Antiquities. At Arienzo, a Village half- 
way to it, I faw Coppice-woods, from which they 
make Mama. They are of the Tree which our 
Gardeners call the flowering Afh. The Manna is 
procured by wounding the Bark at the Seafon, and 
catching the Sap in Cups : It begins to run (they 
ufed the Scripture-Term Biovere, i. e. to rain) the 
Beginning of Auguft ; and, if the Seafon proves dry, 
they gather it 5 or 6 Weeks. The King has a great 
Revenue from it ; yet the Tree grows as well in 
England. 
At Term I was obliged to your Diredions for 
feeing the Cafcade below, as well as above. I went 
down by the Side ©f the Precipice ; which I believe 
few have done ; or they would not imagine the Fall 
fo little as Mijfon make it, very fhort of what the 
People of the Place call it. Mr. Addifon , on the 
contrary, makes the Aquedud at Spoleto as many 
Yards, as I take it to be Palms. One finds indeed 
ftrange Incorrednefs in all the Travel- writers (tho’ 
you very juftly recommended the beft) when one reads 
them upon the Spot. One of them conjedures 
the fine Bridge in Ruins at Narni might have been 
an Aquedud, which manifeftly rofe all the Way 
towards the Town, to eafe the fteep Afcent to it. 
But I was mod furprifed to fee Mr. Addifon mif- 
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