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

The. IJle os Caprea. <99
Galleries, Bagnio’s, and several Subter-
raneous Retirements, that suited with
the Brutal Pleasures of the Emperor.
One would indeed very much wonder co
fee such small Appearances of the many
Works of Art,that were formerly to be ,
met with in this Issand, were we not
told that the. Romans,. after the Death.-
of Tiberias, sent hither an Army of Pio-
neers on purpose to Demoliih the Build-
ings, and. deface the Beauties of the
Issand.
In sailing round Caprea we were en-
tertain’d with many rude Prospedts -of
Rocks and Precipices, that rise in
several Places half a Mile high in
Perpendicular. At the Bottom of ’em
are Caves and Grotto’s, form’d by the
continual breaking of the Waves upon
’em.. I enter’d one which the Inhabi-
tants call Grotto Of euro, and after the
Light of the Sun was a little worn off
my Eyes, could see all the Parts of it
dflindtly, by a glimmering Ressection
that play’d upon ’em from the Surface
of the Water. The Mouth is low and-
narrow, but, after having enter’d pretty
far in, the Grotto opens it self on both
Sides in an oval Figure of an Hundred
Yeads from one Extremity to the other,,
as we were toln, for . it would not have
K 4 been