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

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in the hottest Seasons, for they have ge-
nerally in the Sides of them deep Holes
that run into the Hollows of the Hill,
from whence there constantly issues a
breathing kind of Vapour, so very chil-
ling in the Summer time, that a Man
can scarce suffer his Hand in the Wind of
it.
This Mountain, and a few neighbour-
ing Hillocks that lye scatter’d about the
Bottom of it, is the whole Circuit of
these Dominions. They have, what
they call, Three Castles, Three Convents,
and Five Churches, and can reckon about
FiveThousand Souls in their Communi-
ty. The Inhabitants as well as the Histori-
ans, who mention this little Republick,
give the following Account of itsOriginal.
St. Marino was its Founder, a Dalmatian
by Birth, and by Trade a Mason. He
was employed above Thirteen Hundred
Years ago in the Reparation of Rimini^
and, after he had finish’d his Work,
retired to this solitary Mountain, as find-
ing it very proper for the Life of a Her-
mit, which he led in the greatest Ri-
gours and Austerities of Religion. He
had not been long here before he wrough t
a reputed Miracle, which, join’d with
his extraordinary Sanstity, gained him
so great an Esteem, that the Princess of
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