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 Barriers, whereby the Duke of Savoy thought to have choaked their passage. This action is famous in history, by the name of le Pas de Suze. Here at Susa begins Piedmont.

From Susa we went to S. Ambrosio, and passed by Rivolle a fine house of the Dukes, standing in good air, and at night we came to Turin.

Turin, anciently called Augusta Taurinorum, is situated in a plain, near the foot of the hills and upon the banks of the river Po, which begins here to be navigable, and from hence carries boats to Ferrara, Chiosa and Venice. This Po is a noble river, and very large in some places, especially a little below Ferrara; yet I have read that in a great drouth which happened in the year of the world 2470 it was dryed up and rendered innavigable.

This Turin is the Seat of one of the greatest Princes in Italy, the Duke of Savoy, and Prince of Piedmont, who is also treated with the title of Altezza Reale, and Vica-