A

CLASSICAL TOUR

THROUGH

ITALY

A

CLASSICAL TOUR

THROUGH

ITALY

An. MDCCCII.

Haec est Italia diis sacra, hae gentes ejus, haec
oppida populorum.

Plin. Nat. Hist. ii. 20.

BY THE

REV. JOHN CHETWODE EUSTACE

FOURTH EDITION.

To this edition, carefully revised, corrected and amended,
is added a description of the most remarkable exca-
vations of POMPEI subsequent to the author's tour,
with a plan of that ancient city, and references to the
same, and moreover an itinerary of the posts on the
principal roads, and a list of the most celebrated, and
commodious Inns throughout Italy

VOL. III.

LEGHORN.

PRINTED AND SOLD BY GLAUCUS MASI

VERRAZZANA STREET OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.

1818.

THROUGH ITALY.

CHAP. I.

Bay and Castle of Procida-Evening Hymn -Beautiful View, Observations-the Island of Vivara—Ischia, its Mountains, Eruptions, Appearance, and PopulationNisida-Vesuvius.

As we passed the bay of Misenus we ob

served the fine appearance of that promontory; it is separated by the harbor, and by Mare morto with the flat shore beyond, from the neck of land which it terminates, and thus it forms an insulated eminence, remarkable for its shape, its boldness, and