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298 Towns within, See.
the Place will permit. We here found
the natural Face of the Country quite
changed from what we had been enter-
tain’d with in the Pope’s Dominions.
For instead of the many beautiful Scenes
of green Mountains and fruitful Vallies,
that we had been presented with for
some Days before, we saw now nothing
but a wild naked Prosped: of Rocks and
Hills, worn on all Sides with Gutters
and Channels, and not a Tree or Shrub
to be met with in a vast Circuit of several
Miles. This Savage Prosped: put me
in Mind of the Italian Proverb, that
The Pope has the Flejh^ and the Great
Duke the Bones os Italy. Among a large
Extent of these Barren Mountains I saw
but a Angle Spot that was cultivated, on
which there slood a Convent.
SIE^
the Place will permit. We here found
the natural Face of the Country quite
changed from what we had been enter-
tain’d with in the Pope’s Dominions.
For instead of the many beautiful Scenes
of green Mountains and fruitful Vallies,
that we had been presented with for
some Days before, we saw now nothing
but a wild naked Prosped: of Rocks and
Hills, worn on all Sides with Gutters
and Channels, and not a Tree or Shrub
to be met with in a vast Circuit of several
Miles. This Savage Prosped: put me
in Mind of the Italian Proverb, that
The Pope has the Flejh^ and the Great
Duke the Bones os Italy. Among a large
Extent of these Barren Mountains I saw
but a Angle Spot that was cultivated, on
which there slood a Convent.
SIE^