or at least throw themselves under the milder
government of fome of their neighbours:
Befides that their country is poor, and that
the Emperor draws confiderable incomes
out of its mines of falt and metal. They
are these mines that fill the country with
greater numbers of people than it would be
able to bear without the importation of corn
from foreign parts. The Emperor has forts
and citadels at the entrance of all the paffes
that lead into the Tirol, which are fo ad-
vantageously placed upon rocks and moun-
tains, that they command all the valleys
and avenues that lie about them. Befides
that the country itself is cut into so many
hills and inequalities, as would render it
defenfible by a very little army against a
numerous enemy. It was therefore generally
thought the Duke of Bavaria would not
attempt the cutting off any fuccours that
were fent to Prince Eugene, or the forcing
his way through the Tirol into Italy. The
river Inn, that had hitherto been fhut up
among mountains, paffes generally through
a wide open country during all its courfe
through Bavaria, which is a voyage of two
days, after the rate of twenty leagues a
day.
ADDA, and the Addige, both described by Claudian,
Page 35, 37.
Albano, for what famous, 248.
Alpes, defcribed by Silius Italicus, 290.
St. Ambrofe, his refolute behaviour towards Theodofius the
great, before the gates of the great church at Mi-
lan, 22.
Ambrofian library in Milan how furnished, 24.
Ancona, its fituation, 93.
St. Anthony of Padua, his magnificent church, 41. A
natural perfume iffuing from his bones, ibid. A con-
jecture upon it, ibid. His famous fermon to an af-
fembly of fifh, ibid. The titles given him by a poor
peasant, 49.
Antiquaries, wherein faulty, 211.
Antiquities, two fets in Rome, 197. The great differ-
ence between them, 198.
Antium, its extenfive ruins, 189.
Anxur, its pleafant fituation, 125. Defcribed by Mar-
tial, &c. ibid.
Appennine mountains defcribed by the Latin poets, 279.
Arifto, his monument in the Benedictine church in Fer-
rara, 76.
Baia, the winter retreat of the old Romans, 150.
St. Bartholomew, his famous ftatue in the great church in
Milan, 19.
Bern, its public walks, 311. And arfenal, ibid.
Bolonia, for what famous, 281. Its rarities, ibid.
Brefcia, why more favoured by the Venetians than any
other part of their dominions, 35. Famous for its
iron works, 36.
Calvin, his advice to the Genevois before his death, 329.
Caprea, defcribed, 165, &c. Its fruitful foil, ibid. Some
account of the medals found in it, 172.
Caffis, a French port, its pleasant neighbourhood, I.
Cennis, a mountain between Turin and Geneva, 289.
St. Charles Boromeo his fubterraneous chapel in Milan, 19.
An account of that faint, 20. Compared with the
ordinary faints in the Roman church, 21.
Cimmerians, where placed by Homer, 185.
Civita Vecchia, its unwholsome air, 261.
Clitumnus, the quality of its waters, 99.
Colonna Infame, a pillar at Milan, 27. The occafion of
it, ibid.
Confeffionals, inscriptions over them, 23..
English courted by the prefent Pope to fettle at Civita
Vecchia, 260.
Efcargatoire, the use of it, 309.
Fano, from whence fo called, 93.
Felix the fifth, his story, 296.
Ferrara, thinly inhabited, 75. The town defcribed, ibid.
Florence, 266. An account of its public buildings, ibid.
its famous gallery, 267. And rarities contained in
it, ibid, &c. And in fome chambers adjoining to it,
272. Famous for modern ftatues, 278. The great
Duke's care to prevent Civita Vecchia from being made
a free port, 259. Incensed against the Lucquefe, 262.
For what reason, 263.
Fortune. Two Fortunes worshipped by the heathens at
Antium, 190.
Fountains in Switzerland, a reafon given for their perio.
dical fluxes, 298.
Fribourg defcribed, 308. With an hermitage near it,
St. Gaul, Abbot of, the extent of his territories, 318.
manner of his election, 319. The riches of the in-
habitants, ibid. Their quarrel with the Abbot, 320.
The abbey, 322. Their arms, 323.
St. Gaul, the great Apoftle of Germany, fome account
of him, 324.
Geneva, its fituation, 292. Under the Emperor's dif-
pleasure, and for what reafon, 306. Efteemed the
court of the Alpes, 329.
Genoefe, their manners defcribed, 6. Their character
from the modern Italians, and Latin poets, ibid. An
instance of their indifcretion, 10. Why obliged to be
at present in the French intereft, II. Their feet, and
its fervice, 12. Their Doge claims a crown and scep-
ter from their conqueft of Corfica, ibid. And advantage
arifing to them from it, and a different maxim obferved
by the ancient Romans, ibid.
Genoa, its defcription, 7. Its banks no burden to the
Genoefe, 10. Why uncapable of being made a free
port, 261.
St. George, his church at Verona, 39.
Granaries, the adminiftration of them in Switzerland,
329.
Grotto del Cani, fome experiments made in it, 152, 153.
Reasons offered for the effects of its vapours, 154.
Grotto Ofcuro, 171.
Gulf of Genoa, its nature, 3.
Hall, its falt work, 344. The method of preparing
them, ibid. Its mint, 346.
Henry the eighth of England, his letter to Anne of Bul-
loyn, 239.
Hercules Monacus, 4.
Homer, his Apotheofis, 224.
Jefuits, their particular compliment to the Queen of the
Romans in a comedy defigned for her entertainment,
Infpruck, its public buildings, 339.
chia, by the ancients called Inarime, 180. Some account
of it, ibid.
Italians, the ufual furniture of their libraries, 24. Com.
pared to the French, 30. The difference of manners
in the two nations, ibid. The great averfion to the
French obferved in the common people, 32., Some
reafons for it, ibid. Their extravagant tomb-ftones,
40. The difference betwixt their poetical and profe
language, 65. A great help to their modern poetry,
66. Their comedies low and obfcene, ibid. A reason
for it, 67. The chief parts in all their comedies, ibid.
A great cuftom among them of crowning the Holy
Virgin, 81.
Italy divided into many principalities, as more natural to
its fituation, 29. Its prefent defolation, 118. Com-
pared to its ancient inhabitants, 119.
Funa Sifpita, or Sofpita how reprefented, 272. Tully's
Defcription of this goddefs, ibid.
St. Juftina, her church one of the fineft in Italy, 51.
Lago di Como, formerly Larius, 35. Defcribed by Claudi-
Lago di Garda, or Benacus, defcribed by Virgil, 36.
Lapis Vituperii, what, and to what ufe applied, 51.
Laufanne, 303. A peculiar privilege belonging to one
ftreet in this town, ibid.
Lawyers, their great numbers, and continual employ-
ment among the Neapolitans, 136.
Leghorn, 256. A free port, 257. The great refort of
other nations to it, ibid. The advantage the Great
Duke receives from it, ibid, &c.
Lemanus, the lake defcribed, 294, &c. With the town's
upon it, ibid.
Liris, or the Garigliano defcribed, 124.
Loretto, its prodigious riches, 96. Why never attacked
by the Turks, ibid. Or the Chriftian Princes, 97. A
defcription of the holy houfe, 98.
Lucan, his prophecy of the Latian towns, 251.
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