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

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the Breath of weaker Animals, were- it
put to the Trial.
It would be endless to reckon up the
disferent Baths, to be met with in a Coun-
try that so much abounds in Sulphur.
There is scarce a Disease which has not
one adapted to it. A Stranger is gene-
rally led into that they call Core’s Bath,
and several Voyage-Writers pretend
there is a cold Vapour rising from the
Bottom of it, which refreshes those
who Hoop into it. ’Tis true the Heat
is much more supportable to one that
stoops, than to one that Hands upright,
because the Steams of Sulphur gather
in the Hollow of the Arch about
a Man’s Head, and are therefore
much thicker and warmer in that
Part than at the Bottom. The Three,
Lakes of Agnano, Avernus^ and the Lu-
er in, have now nothing in them particu-
lar. The Monte Novo was thrown out
by an Eruption of Fire, that happen’d
in the Place where now the Mountain,
Hands. The Suls at ar a is very surprising
to one who has not seen Mount Vefwvio.
But there is nothing about Naples^ nor
indeed in any Part of Italy., which de-
serves our Admiration so much as this
Mountain. I must confess the Idea I
had of it, did not answer the real Image
of