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264 A TOUR THROUGH
sweeping away churches, villages, and con-
vents, broke over the lofty walls of Ca-
tania, and covered up five of its bastions
with the intervening curtains. From thence
pouring down on the city, it destroyed
every object it met with, overwhelming
and burying all in one promiscuous ruin.
What he regrets raost, was some pre-
cious remains of antiquity; the names, the
situation, and even the memory of whose
existence, is now lost in the place. He
mentions an amphitheatre, which he calls
Ccllifeo, the Circus Maximus, the Nauma-
cbia, and several temples.
An account of this great eruption was
sent to Charles II. by Lord Winchelsea,
who was then returning from his embassy
at Constantinople, and slopped here on pur-
pose to see so remarkable an event. But
his lordlhip has not been at that pains to
examine it we could have wissied. His
ciiriosity
sweeping away churches, villages, and con-
vents, broke over the lofty walls of Ca-
tania, and covered up five of its bastions
with the intervening curtains. From thence
pouring down on the city, it destroyed
every object it met with, overwhelming
and burying all in one promiscuous ruin.
What he regrets raost, was some pre-
cious remains of antiquity; the names, the
situation, and even the memory of whose
existence, is now lost in the place. He
mentions an amphitheatre, which he calls
Ccllifeo, the Circus Maximus, the Nauma-
cbia, and several temples.
An account of this great eruption was
sent to Charles II. by Lord Winchelsea,
who was then returning from his embassy
at Constantinople, and slopped here on pur-
pose to see so remarkable an event. But
his lordlhip has not been at that pains to
examine it we could have wissied. His
ciiriosity