LETTER LVII.

Turin, June the 30th.

W

E reached this, our first acquaintance of the Italian towns, yefterday. Having lain at Novara, a very indifferent inn, where we had no rest from the vulgar and brutal noifes made by the poftilions and helpers, &c. who, playing and quarrelling at cards all night long, fo frighted me, that I expected to hear in the morning they had affaffinated each other, but happily no mifchievous confequence enfued. Our journey here was made very disagreeable by the frequent crof fing of rivers; fome by means of a raft, others we were obliged to ford. The current of the Teffin in particular was fo ftrong, that we had like to have met with an ugly accident; it was as much as could be done to avoid being carried forcibly down the river. We also croffed the Doro, whofe fands are mixed with grains of pure and fine gold. The road was not very fafe neither, as there was a banditti who lay concealed in a forest not far removed. Armed peasants were ordered by the magiftrates to patrol, four or five in a company, in their turns, between one village and another, in order to affift travellers, in case of neceffity; and as the road lies through both the

king of Sardinia's territories and the Milanefe, it is a convenient circumftance that these villains fometimes avail themfelves of, to escape into the one or the other ftate, when they ply on the borders of both.

We fhall leave this city as foon as we have feen our acquaintance, then proceed to Lyons, and after a few days ftay there, prefs on to the fouth. Our intention is, that this excurfion fhall not take up more time than three weeks, being anxious to fee those monuments of Roman magnificence, which still remain at Nifmes, Orange, Arles, &c. of which you fhall have a full and true ac

count.

When in France, which we fhall be in a few days, you must fancy us very near you. We, it is true, fhall be in the fouth, and you in the north; but you know, in this inftance, that north and fouth are not very far afunder. I can give you one circumstance wnich will afford you pleafure, that we are affured the roads through the Savoy have been fo well mended, previous to the young princess's journey to the Comte de Provence, that travelling over them is no longer inconvenient or dangerous. We like this town as much as before we had seen all the others in Italy: I fhall go again to vifit the King's Palace, from an affurance of finding it as much to my taste as formerly.

The weather is delightfully fine, and the environs in high beauty. His Majefty has not neglected

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glected his works at the Valentin in our absence, there is a great deal of earth moved and much done; it may probably be completed before winter. We are lodged at an hotel called les Armes d'Angleterre, the apartments are good, and we are well ferved. As we propose resting here but a few days, we thought it more convenient to lodge in an hotel, than to have the trouble of a house and houfekeeping. Adieu, &c.

GENERAL

GENERAL INDEX

TO THE

TWO VOLU

VOLUME S.

(N. B. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and
the Figures to the Page.)

CADE
i. 276.

Academy of sciences at Bologna, i. 346.

Addifon, Mr. mistakes in his account of the gallery at

Florence corrected, i. 416.

Adrian's villa near Tivoli, ii. 153.

Agnefe, St. church of, at Bologna, i. 341.

Agostino, St. church of, at Piacenza, i. 250:

Aiguebelle in Savoy, i. 28. 30.

Aix in Savoy, i. 20. The medicinal fprings there, 21.
Albani, villa, near Rome, ii. 260.

Albano, mountain of, near Rome, fome account of,
ii. 250. The town, 251.

Albergo di Poveri at Genoa, i. 198.

Alberoni, cardinal, the principal events of his life, i,

255.

Aldrobrandini, villa, near Rome, ii. 262. At Frascati,
277. The gardens, 278. Mufical ftatues, ibid.
Aldrovandi, his manufcript collections in natural history
at Bologna, i. 347.

Aldrovandi palace at Bologna defcribed, i. 318.
Aleffandria on the river Tanaro, i. 153.

Altieri

Altieri palace at Rome, ii. 236.
Amazon, a Sardinian one defcribed, i. 31.
Ambrofe, St. in Piedmont, i. 64.
Ambrofian library at Milan, ii. 382.
Amphitheatre at Verona, ii. 374.
habitants for public fpectacles, ibid.

Is ftill used by the in-

Ancona, the town, port, and mole of, ii. 319. Road
from thence to Rimini, 321.

Angelo, Michael, character of his famous picture of the
Laft Judgment, in the chapel of the Vatican palace,

ii. 211.

Annonciato church at Genoa, i. 192.

Antonio, St. church of, at Padua, ii. 369. Baffo relievos
of the events of his life, ibid.

Apothecary, anecdote of one at Genoa, i. 159.
Appenine, the road over to Genoa, i. 155.

Aqua di Pifciarelli, a famous medicinal water near Puz
zuoli, ii. 124.

Aqua Zolfa, near Tivoli, ii. 251.

Armoury for women at Genoa, i. 216.
Arfenal at Turin described, i. 101.
at Genoa, i. 198.

at Venice, ii. 360.

Arfinelli, the leaning tower of, at Bologna, i. 354.
Affietta, detail of the battle of, and defeat of the French
by the Piedmontese, i. 57.

Affignations, common in the Italian churches, i. 165.
Avernus, lake, ii. 126. The Sybil's cave, ibid. Tem-
ple of Apollo, 127.

Auguftus, the mausoleum of, at Rome, ii. 202. Coloffal
head of, at the villa Mattei, 268.

B

Baia, near Puzzoli, ii. 106. The baths and prifons of
Nero, ibid. Agrippina's tomb, 110. Temples, 112.
Ponte di Caligula, 114. Hiftorical anecdotes of Baia,
ibid. The village of Bauli, 116.

Balbi palaces at Genoa, paintings in, i. 168.
Balbus, father and fon, equeftrian ftatues of, in the pa
lace of Portici near Naples, ii. 64.

Barberigo palazzo, at Venice, ii. 355.

Barberini