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

ROME. ^9
future, but might often give a conssdera-
rable Light into the Quality of the Place,
or the Dellgn of the Statue.
But the great Magazine for all kinds
of Treasure is supposed to be the Bed of
the Tiber. We may be sure, when the
Romans lay under the Apprehensions of
seeing their City sack’d by a barbarous
Enemy, as they have done more than
once, that they would take care to be-
llow such of their Riches this way as
could bell bear the Water : besides what
the Insolence of a Brutiih Conqueror
may be supposed to have contributed, who
had an Ambition to walle and destroy all
the Beauties of so celebrated a City. I
need not mention the old Common-shore
of Rome.* which , ran from all Parts of
the Town with the Current and Vio-
lence of an ordinary River, nor the fre-
quent Inundations of the Tiber., which
may have swept away many of the Or-
naments of its Banks, nor the several
Statues that the Romans themselves ssung
into it, when they would revenge them-
se-lves on the Memory of an ill Citizen,
a dead Tyrant, ora Discarded Favourite.
At Rome they have so general an Opini-
on of the Riches of this River, that the
Jews have formerly prosfer’d the Pope
to cleanse it, so they might have, for
their