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Vol.II. to ITALY. 105
Foot high, which are equivalent to One hun-
dred and fifty five Feet of your measure.
I haveseveral times enjoy’d the learned and de-
lightful Conversation of the Abbot Fabretti. We
visited together some of the Caves call’d Catacombs,
andseveral Ruins of the old Edifices, besides other
Antiquities. I Ihall take this occasion to acquaint
you, that we enter’d one day into the * Maufoleum * Capo di
of Cecilia Daughter of Metellus, sirnam’d Creticus. Bovi.
At the Entrance of this Monument he fliew’d us
a Hole, into which, some Weeks ago, a f Gen- fix Malatesta
tieman drop’d, unpercejv’d by those who ac- cesena.’ °
company’d him. Elis Friends were seiz’d with
astonifliment when they mist him, and cou’d not
imagin what was become of him. The Pit was
deep, and either he was so stunn’d by his Fall,
that he cou’d not cry out, or if he did call none
of ’em heard him, and at last they return'd with-
out him. About sixty Flours after, the poor Gen-
tleman having fortunately scratch’d open a Pas-
sage, clamber d out of the Pit, and, tho’ not
without dissiculty, got to rhe next House, his
Legs being scarce able to suflain his pale, weak,
stary’d , and spent Body. The People of the
House where he enter’d, mov’d with Compas-
sion, prepar’d some comfortable Broths for him,
and assisted him so effestually, that he quickly re-
cover’d his Strength.
Never were there so many subterraneous places
seen, as there are in and about Rome; the Earth
is fain down in some parts, and has flopp'd the
Entries of many of those famous Caves so uni-
versally known by the Name of Catacombs, but
there is still a prodigious number of ’em remain-
ing. You must not fancy those Faults, I mean
every Catacomb, if I may be allow’d to use that
Expression, to be one single Room ; for the Ca-
tsitfombs of St. Agnes, for example, or those of
St.
Foot high, which are equivalent to One hun-
dred and fifty five Feet of your measure.
I haveseveral times enjoy’d the learned and de-
lightful Conversation of the Abbot Fabretti. We
visited together some of the Caves call’d Catacombs,
andseveral Ruins of the old Edifices, besides other
Antiquities. I Ihall take this occasion to acquaint
you, that we enter’d one day into the * Maufoleum * Capo di
of Cecilia Daughter of Metellus, sirnam’d Creticus. Bovi.
At the Entrance of this Monument he fliew’d us
a Hole, into which, some Weeks ago, a f Gen- fix Malatesta
tieman drop’d, unpercejv’d by those who ac- cesena.’ °
company’d him. Elis Friends were seiz’d with
astonifliment when they mist him, and cou’d not
imagin what was become of him. The Pit was
deep, and either he was so stunn’d by his Fall,
that he cou’d not cry out, or if he did call none
of ’em heard him, and at last they return'd with-
out him. About sixty Flours after, the poor Gen-
tleman having fortunately scratch’d open a Pas-
sage, clamber d out of the Pit, and, tho’ not
without dissiculty, got to rhe next House, his
Legs being scarce able to suflain his pale, weak,
stary’d , and spent Body. The People of the
House where he enter’d, mov’d with Compas-
sion, prepar’d some comfortable Broths for him,
and assisted him so effestually, that he quickly re-
cover’d his Strength.
Never were there so many subterraneous places
seen, as there are in and about Rome; the Earth
is fain down in some parts, and has flopp'd the
Entries of many of those famous Caves so uni-
versally known by the Name of Catacombs, but
there is still a prodigious number of ’em remain-
ing. You must not fancy those Faults, I mean
every Catacomb, if I may be allow’d to use that
Expression, to be one single Room ; for the Ca-
tsitfombs of St. Agnes, for example, or those of
St.