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

Ch. XV.

THROUGH ITALY.

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to the recollection of the traveller, and enhances
the pleasure with which he contemplates the
stream and its bordering* scenery.
A little neat church not far from the river,
dedicated to St. Laurence, quia flumen pestemqu?
repulit, shews what ravages the Po sometimes
makes, and how much the inhabitants dread its
inundations. As we approached Pavia, the
verdure and freshness of the country, if possible,
increased, and exhibited an appearance altogether
cooling and delightful.
The Tesino (Ticinus) bathes the walls of
Pavia, and waters its whole territory. Another
branch of the same river flows about a mile and
a half from the town, and is finely shaded with
poplar groves. The Ticinus is a noble stream,
clear and rapid. In clearness as well as in the
shades that grace its banks, it agrees with the
well-known description of Silins; but in the
rapidity of its current it differs widely from it.*

* Caeruleas Taciuus aquas, et stagna vadoso
Perspicuus servat turbari nescia fundo,
Ac nitidum viridi lente traidt amne liquorem:
Vix credas laid ; ripis tarn mitis opacis
Argutos inter volucruin certamina, cantus,
Somniferam ducit luccnti gurgite Ivinpham.
Lib. iv. 72.