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

Ch, I THROUGH ITALY. 21
different from the shattered mountain tumbled in
ancient days by Jupiter on the giant monster*,
for ever resounding with his groans, and inflamed
by his burning breath f.
On our return we touched at Procida, and
again re-embarking crossed the bay of Pozzuolo.
The port that once engrossed the commerce of the
East, and was accustomed to behold the Roman
navy riding on its bosom, was all solitude and
silence; not one sail was spread, not even a boat
was seen to ply in its forsaken waters. The
Julian mole, Lucrinoque addita claustra^ no
longer repel the indignant waves: the royal
structure which was numbered among the wonders
of Italy, has scarcely left a trace of its existence;
and the moral of the poet is literally exemplified

* Quas turbine nigro
Fumantem premit lapetum, fiammasque rebelli
Ore ejectantem. Sil. Lib. xii. 149.
t Ischia is about eighteen miles in circumference, and may
contain about seventy square miles ; the number of its inha-
bitants amounts to four-and-twenty thousand. It belongs to
the king of Naples, and brings him a considerable income»
arising principally from a tax on its wines.

$ Virgil, Georgic. IL