Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

4 Monaco, Genoa, &c.
Fenc’d to the Weft, and to the North
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But when the Winds in Southern Quar-
ters rise,
Ships, from their Anchors torn, become
their sport,
Ard sudden Tempests rage within the'
Port.

On the Promontory, where the Town
of Monaco now stands, was formerly the
Temple of Hercules Mcnacus, which still
gives the Name to this small Principality.
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Dcfrendens. —— —•— V irg. Jin. 6.
There are but Three Towns in the
Dominions of the Prince of Monaco. The
chief of them is lituate on a Rock which
runs out into the Sea, and is well for44
tified by Nature. It was formerly'un-4
der the Prote&ion of the Spaniard, but
not many Years since drove out the<9/>
nfr Garrison, and received a French ondj
which consists at present of Five Hun-
dred Men, paid and officer’d by the
French King. The Officer who showed
me the Palace told me, with a great deal of n
Gravity, that his Master and the King ^PoetH
of France, amidst all the Confusions of (HcUr we
Europe,

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