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 at the foot of great hills; where having rested well all night, at the Colonels house (the best Inn here) we began the next morning to clime the hills for a breakfast. For the space of three hours our horses eased us, the ascent not being so surley as we expected from so rugged a brow of hills: but when we came to the steep of the hill it self Mount Sampion, (one of the great Staircases of Italy) we were forced to compliment our horses, and go a foot. It was towards the very beginning of October when we passed that way, and therefore found that Hill in a good humour; otherwise its froward enough. Having in one hours time crawled up the steep of the Hill, we had two hours more riding to the Village and Inn of Sampion: where arriving, we found little meat for our great stomachs, and cold comfort for all the hot stincking Stove.

At last, having paid for a dinner here, though we saw nothing we could eate, we were the lighter in purse, as well as in body, to walk