FROM TULA 
248 
CHAP. 
X. 
' v > 
Change of 
Climate. 
Boghoro- 
ditz. 
We were now traversing the southern latitude 
of our beloved country, and in a direct line 
towards the south. As we drew nigh to Wororwtz, 
we observed many of our English indigenous 
plants; the large thistle, the kilh-weed, dandelion, 
white clover, wood-strawberry, plantain, and the 
doch-iveed. Sudden and loud thunder-storms, 
with hail and rain, majestic rolling clouds, pass- 
ing gusts of wind, and transitory sun-beams, 
reminded us of an English spring. Such acci- 
dental resemblances are by no means, however, 
the necessary accompaniments of a similarity in 
latitude. Naples and Constantinople are nearly 
on the same parallel of latitude ; but the climate 
of the latter is by many degrees the colder of the 
two. The mild aspect of the Plain of IV j ronetz 
may be attributed to the want of forests ; the 
removal of which, in all countries, raises the 
temperature of the climate. A well-known 
passage in Horace describes the mountain 
Soracte as being white with deep snow 1 ; but 
the climate of Italy is now so altered, that such 
a sight is perhaps never observed. 
The next day, June the fifth, we passed through 
(1) “ Vidcs, ut alta stet nivc candidura 
Soracte.” Ilorat. Lib. I. Ode 9. v. 1. 
