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

22,1 From Naples, to
the Fierce, and not the Poet that speaks.
It may however be look’d upon as an
Intimation, that he himself thought it
an Issand in LEneas's Time. As for the |
thick 'Woods, which not only Virgd
’out Homer mentions, in the beautiful
Description that Plutarch and Longinus :
have taken notice of, they are most of
’em grubb’d up smce the Promontory
has been cultivated and inhabited,, tho’ |
there are itill many Spots of it which
iliow the natural Inclination of the Soil
leans that way.
The next Place we touch’d upon was
Nettundy where we found nothing re-
markable besides the extreana Poverty
and Laziness of the Inhabitans. At Two
Miles distance from it lye the Ruins of j
Antiuni^ that are spread over a great
Circuit of Land. There are still left the
Foundations of several Buildings, and
what are always the last Parts that periih
in a Ruin, many Subterraneous Grotto’s
and Passages of a great Length. The
Foundations of Nero's Port are still to
be seen. It was altogether Artificial,
and compos’d of huge Moles running
round it, in a kind of Circular Figure,
except where the Ships were to enter,
and had about Three Quarters of a Mile
in its fliortest Diameter. Tho’ the mak-
ing