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4 his own countrymen, had it not been for the assistance of Robert Meggat, a Scotsman also, then residing in Burgo di Roma with the old Earl of Tyrone, who concealed him three days at the top of his lord’s palace, and on the fourth at midnight when all the streets and gates were watched for him, conveyed him away, and leaped the wall with him. He then visited Naples, Virgil’s tomb, &c. Having walked four times from one end of Italy to the other, viz, from Vallese, the first town in Piedmont, to Cape Blancho in Calabria, he affirmed it to be 900 Italian miles in length, and in breadth 240, from the Adriatic coast to the Riviera of Genoa, by the sea side, Campagna di Roma and the duchy of Spoleto, he returned to Loretto. Here he met with a countryman named Mr. Js. Arthur, whose company was most acceptable to him. One day, as they were viewing the image of the Virgin, a lusty young woman, busy at her beads, overpowered by the heat of the throng fainted away; at which the woman near her exclaimed, that “our blessed lady had appeared to her.” immediately she was carry’d out, and laid on the steps that led from the chapel to the church door, some hundreds more saluting her with “Saint, saint, O ever blessed saint!” This being Friday, the woman having travelled all night, to save