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4 Trinita di Monte in Rome: where even death it self would find a cure in nature, if it were not a curse from the author of nature. In fine, it excells in all kind of provisions, either for dyet or sport; and I have seen in Rome whole cart-loads of Wild Boars, and Venison, brought in at once to be sold in the Market; and above threescore Hares in Florence brought in, in one day by the two Companies of Hunters, the Piacevoli and Piatelli, on a general hunting day.

Yet after all this, some cry out against Italy, for being too hot; and paint us out its Air as an unwholesome Pestilential Air; its Sun, as an angry Comet, whose beams are all pointed with Plagues and Feavers; and the Countrey it self, as a place where starving is the only way to live in health; where men eat by Method and Art; where you must carry your body steadily, or else spill your life; and where there are so many Provincial Sicknesses and Diseases; as the Catarrhs of Ge-