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V4 NAPLES.
Isse of Caprea^ the Sea enters by a
Streight of about Three Miles wide.
This Issand (lands as a vail Mole, which
seems to have been planted there on pur-
pose to break the Violence of the Waves
that run into the Bay. It lyes long-
ways^ almost in a parallel Line to Na-
ples. The excessive Height of its Rocks
(ecures a great part of the Bay from
Winds and WaVes, which enter again
between the other End of this Issand
and the Promontory of Mifeno. The
Bay of Naples is call’d the Crater by the
old Geographers, probably from this its
Resemblance to a round Bowl half fill’d
with Liquor. Perhaps Virgil^ who
compos’d here a great part of his AL-
neids, took from hence the Plan of that
beautiful Harbour, which he has made
in his First Book, for the Libyan Portis
but the Neapolitan Bay in little.
Est in fecejsu longo locus. Infula port urn
EJstcit objectu laterum^ quibus omnis ab
alto
Erangitur^ inque sinus ftcindit Jese unda
redubtos:
Hine atque bine vafta rapes geminique mi-
nantur
In cuelum scopuli^ quorum sub ‘vertice
lati
Aquora
tfjst
btrrtn
net vm’di'C'
An Issand flw
Sea,
ride.
Broke by the
side,
jin double St]
glide,
Between Tw.
ws Scene
Green.
Hs.: I'.?-.
' H and has i
wor
Bilice, ot k-
One would
who ha5
^Kingdom
a PC(
lan
Elions in
Isse of Caprea^ the Sea enters by a
Streight of about Three Miles wide.
This Issand (lands as a vail Mole, which
seems to have been planted there on pur-
pose to break the Violence of the Waves
that run into the Bay. It lyes long-
ways^ almost in a parallel Line to Na-
ples. The excessive Height of its Rocks
(ecures a great part of the Bay from
Winds and WaVes, which enter again
between the other End of this Issand
and the Promontory of Mifeno. The
Bay of Naples is call’d the Crater by the
old Geographers, probably from this its
Resemblance to a round Bowl half fill’d
with Liquor. Perhaps Virgil^ who
compos’d here a great part of his AL-
neids, took from hence the Plan of that
beautiful Harbour, which he has made
in his First Book, for the Libyan Portis
but the Neapolitan Bay in little.
Est in fecejsu longo locus. Infula port urn
EJstcit objectu laterum^ quibus omnis ab
alto
Erangitur^ inque sinus ftcindit Jese unda
redubtos:
Hine atque bine vafta rapes geminique mi-
nantur
In cuelum scopuli^ quorum sub ‘vertice
lati
Aquora
tfjst
btrrtn
net vm’di'C'
An Issand flw
Sea,
ride.
Broke by the
side,
jin double St]
glide,
Between Tw.
ws Scene
Green.
Hs.: I'.?-.
' H and has i
wor
Bilice, ot k-
One would
who ha5
^Kingdom
a PC(
lan
Elions in