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 la Riviera di Genoa) unto Genua it self; and all the way long we saw such a continual Suburbs of stately Villas and Villages, that these scantlings made us in love which the whole Piece it self, Genua. I confess, I never saw a more stately abord to any City then to this: and if we had not had Genua full in our sight all the way long, we should have taken some of these stately Villages for Genua it self; and have imitated Hostingus the Leader of the Normans, who coming into Italy about the year 860 with a great Army, and finding Luna (a Town in the confines of Genua) so sumptuously built, thought really it had been Rome, and thereupon taking it, he gloried that he had sacked the Mistriss of the World; Gratatur tenere se Monarchiam totius Imperii, per urbem quam putabat Romam, saith his Historian.

Sailing thus along this pleasant Coast, we came betimes to Genua.

Genua is one of the chief Towns that stand upon the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the best in Italy. The