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

ROME.
T is generally observ’d, that
Modern Rome stands higher
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Place with
for it is, that the present City stands up-
on the Ruins of the former, and indeed
I have often observed, that where any
considerable Pile of Building stood an-
ciently one still finds a riling Ground,
ora little kind of Hill, which was doubt-
less made up out of the Fragments and
Rubbilh of the ruin’d Edifice. But be-
sides this particular Cause, we may asiign
another that has very much contributed
to the railing the Situation of several
Parts of Rome: It being certain the great
Quantities of Earth, that have been
walh’d olf from the Hills by the Vio-
lence of Showers, have had no sinal!
lhare in it. This any one may be sensi-
ble of who observes how far several
Buildings, that stand near the Roots of
Mountains, are sunk deeper in the Earth
than

computed it about Fourteen
or Fifteen Feet, taking one
another. The Reason given