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 stored it. This Town is famous for excellent Neats tongues, and Cheeses as big as Milstones. A gentleman of this Town, caused four Cheeses to be made each one weighing 500 pound weight. The people here mow their Hay three times a year; and I am afraid they are powled as often with Taxes.

Piacenza, or Pleasance, deserves its name, by reason of its sweet situation in a rich Country near the Po and Trebia, two great Rivers. Near the last of which Hannibal overcame Sempronius the Roman Consul. The Country round about this Town, is very rich in pasturage: Hence their excellent Cheeses and rare Cream. It aboundeth also in Saltpits which afford no smal profit. This Town belongs to the Duke of Parma.

The best things to be seen here are, the Equestris statua of the second Alexander the Great, or the first Alexander of Parma. Its in brass in the Market-place. The old Fountain made by Augustus Cæsar. The rare picture of Raphaels