Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

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death. The towns forsaken by the inhabitants,
gradually sunk to ruin, and the most delicious
region the sun beholds in his course, is now a
desert, and seems destined to expiate in ages of
silence and desolation the crimes of the last deo e-
nerate Romans.*
The morning was now far advanced, and I.
turned towards the west to view the island,
which is highly cultivated, thickly inhabited,
and presents to a spectator beholding it from the
castle a most delightful grove of mulberries,
poplars, and vines, with domes, and clusters of
white houses intermingled. Juvenalf seems to

* The present unwholesomeness of Baicc and its bay, if
real, must be ascribed partly to the same cause as that of the
lakes Agnano and Averno; and partly to the streams and
sources once collected on the hills behind it in aqueducts
and reservoirs, now spreading and oozing down the declivi-
ties, and settling in the hollows below. In a warm climate
all stagnant water becomes putrid during the hot months.
This inconvenience might easily be remedied, and will, with-
out doubt, when the government becomes more active, and
the taste of the Neapolitan gentry more rqral.
t Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici,
Laudo tamen vacuis quod sedem figere Cumis
Destiuet, atque unum civem donare Sibyllae,
Janua Baiarum est, & gratum littus amceni
Secessus. Ego vel Prochytam prtepono Suburrae.
Juv. iii. 5, 6.