would not have troubled himself with the Differtation that he has made upon them. Silius Italicus has given us the Names of feveral Towns and Rivers in the Campania Felice.

Jam verò quos dives opum, quos dives avorum
Et toto dabat ad bellum Campania tractu;
Ductorum adventum vicinis fedibus Ofci
Servabant; SinueJa tepens, fluctuque fonorum
Vulturnum, quafque evertere filentia, Amycle,
Fundique et regnata Lamo Cajeta, domufque
Antiphate compreffa freto, ftagnifque paluftre
Linternum, et quondam fatorum confcia Cuma
Illic Nucerie, et Gaurus navalibus apta,
Prole Dicharchad multo cum milite Graia;
Illic Parthenope, et Poeno non pervia Nola,
Alliphe, et Clanio contemtæ femper Acerræ.
Sarraftes etiam populos totafque videres
Sarni mitis opes: illic quos fulphure pingues
Phlegrai legere finus, Mifenus et ardens
Ore giganteo fedes Ithacefia, Baja,
Non Prochyte, non ardentem fortita Typhoa
Inarime, non antiqui faxofa Telonis
Infula, nec parvis aberať Calatia muris,
Surrentum, et pauper fulci Cerealis Avella;
In primis Capua, heu rebus fervare fecundis
Inconfulta modum, et pravo peritura tumore. Lib. viii.

Now rich Campania fends forth all her Sons,
And drains her populous Cities for the War:
The Ofci, firft, in Arms their Leaders wait:
Warm Sinueffa comes; Vulturnum too,
Whofe Walls are deafen'd by the founding Main;
And fair Amycle, to the Foe betray'd
Thro' fatal Silence: Fundi too was there;

And Cajeta by ancient Lamus ruled:

Antiphata, wafh'd by the rolling Sea;
And moist Linternum on its marshy Soil:
Cume, the Sibyl's ancient Seat, was there;
Nuceria too, and woody Gaurus, came:
There was Parthenope, and Nola there,
Nola, impervious to the Punic Arms;
Alliphe, and Acerra ftill o'erflow'd

By the fwift Clanius: there you might behold
Sarrafte's manly Sons, and all the Wealth
Of gentle Sarnus; those whom Phlegra fent
Steaming with Sulphur: Thither Baie came,
Built by Ulyffes' Friend; Mifenus too;
Nor Prochyte was abfent, nor the fam'd
Inarime, where huge Typhaus lies

Transfix'd with Thunder; nor the ftony Isle
Of Telon, nor Calatia's humble Walls;
Surrentum, and Avella's barren Soil:
But chiefly Capua, Capua, doom'd, alas!
By her own Pride and Infolence to fall,

NAPLES,

NAPLE S.

M

Y first Days at Naples were taken up with the Sight of Proceffions, which are always very magnificent in the Holy-Week. It would be tedious to give an Account of the feveral Reprefentations of our Saviour's Death and Refurrection, of the Figures of himself, the bleffed Virgin, and the Apoftles, which are carried up and down on this Occafion, with the cruel Penances that feveral inflict on themfelves, and the multitude of Ceremonies that attend thefe Solemnities. I faw, at the fame time, a very fplendid Proceffion for the Acceffion of the Duke of Anjou to the Crown of Spain, in which the Vice-Roy bore his Part at the left Hand of Cardinal Cantelmi. To grace the Parade, they expos'd, at the fame time, the Blood of St. Januarius, which liquify'd at the Approach of the Saint's Head, tho', as they fay, it was hard congeal'd before. I had twice an Opportunity of feeing the Operation of this pretended Miracle, and muft confefs I think it fo far from being a real Miracle, that I look upon it as one of the moft bungling Tricks that I ever faw: Yet it is this that makes as great a Noife in the Roman Church, and that Monfieur Pafchal has hinted at among the reft, in his Marks of the true Religion. The modern Neapolitans feem to have copy'd it out from one, which

as any

was

was fhewn in a Town of the Kingdom of Naples, as long ago as in Horace's Time.

Dehinc Gnatia lymphis

Iratis extructa dedit rifufque jocofque,

Dum, flamma finè, thura liquefcere limine Sacro
Perfuadere cupit: credat Judæus apella,

Non ego.

Lib. I. Sat. 5. v. 97.

At Gnatia next arriv'd, we laugh'd to fee
The fuperftitious Crowd's Simplicity,
That in the facred Temple needs would try
Without a Fire th' unheated Gums to fry;
Believe who will the folemn Sham, not I.

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One may fee at least that the heathen Priesthood had the fame kind of Secret among them, of which the Roman Catholics are now Matters.

I must confefs, tho' I had liv'd above a Year in a Roman Catholic Country, I was furpris'd to fee many Ceremonies and Superftitions in Naples, that are not fo much as thought of in France. But as it is certain there has been a kind of fecret Reformation made, tho' not publicly own'd, in the Roman Catholic Church, fince the fpreading of the Proteftant Religion, fo we find the feveral Nations are recover'd out of their Ignorance, in proportion as they converfe more or less with thofe of the Reform'd Churches. For this Reafon the French are much more enlighten'd than the Spaniards or Italians, on Occasion of their frequent Controverfies with the Huguenots; and: we find many of the Roman Catholic Gentlemen of our own Country, who will not stick to laugh at the Superftitions they fometimes meet with in other Nations.

I fhall

I fhall not be particular in defcribing the Grandeur of the City of Naples, the Beauty of its Pavement, the Regularity of its Buildings, the Magnificence of its Churches and Convents, the Multitude of its Inhabitants, or the Delightfulness of its Situation, which fo many others have done with a great deal of Leifure and Exactnefs. If a War fhould break out, the Town has reason to apprehend the exacting of a large Contribution, or a Bombardment. It has but feven Gallies, a Mole, and two little Caftles, which are capable of hindering an Enemy's Approaches. Befides that the Sea which lies near it is not fubject to Storms, has no fenfible Flux and Reflux, and is fo deep that a Veffel of Burden may come up to the very Mole. The Houfes are flat-roof'd to walk upon, fo that every Bomb that fell on them would take Effect.

Pictures, Statues, and Pieces of Antiquity are not fo common at Naples, as one might expect in so great and ancient a City of Italy; for the Vice-Roys take care to fend into Spain every thing that is valuable of this nature. Two of their fineft modern Statues are thofe of Apollo and Minerva, plac'd on each fide of Sannazarius's Tomb. On the Face of this Monument, which is all of Marble, and very neatly wrought, is reprefented, in Bas Relief, Nep tune among the Satyrs, to fhow that this Poet was the Inventor of Pifcatory Eclogues. I remember Hugo Grotius defcribes himself, in one of his Poems, as the first that brought the Mufes to the Sea-fide; but he must be understood only of the Poets of his own Country. I here faw the Temple that Sannazarius mentions in his Invocation of the blessed Virgin, at the beginning of his De partu Virginis, which was all rais'd at his own Expence,