Excerpt from Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &C, : In the Year 1701, 1702, 1703The next day we again fet fail, and made the belt of our way until we were forced, by contrary winds, into St. Rama, a very pretty town in the Genoa/é dominions The front to the fea is not large, but there are a great many houfes behind it, built up the tide of the mountain to avoid the winds and vapours that come from fea. We here few feverd perfons that in the midl't of December had no thing over their {boulders but their fhirts, without complaining of the cold. It it cer tainly very lucky for the poorer fort to be born in a place that is free from the greatcl't in convenience, to which thofe of our norm thorn nations are (object, and inde with out this natural benefit of their climates, the extreme mifery and poverty that are in molt of the Italian governments would he irifup portable. There are at St. Rama many plat. Tations Of palm-tees, though t..ey do not grow in other parts of Ila/y. 's've failed from hence directly for Gama, and had a fair wind that carried us into the middle of t' gulph, which is very remarkable for tempeils and fcarcity of fifh. It is probable one may be the caufe of the other, whether it be that the fifhermen cannot employ their art with ff) much fudcefs in [o troubled 9. (ea, or that the filh do not care for inhabiting fuch ftormy waters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.