If Some Young Patriot, In Good Health And Spirits,
Would Take The Trouble As Often As He Is Imposed Upon
By the road
in travelling, to have recourse to the fountain-head, and prefer
a regular complaint to the comptroller
Of the posts, either in
France or Italy, he would have ample satisfaction, and do great
service to the community. Terni is an agreeable town, pretty well
built, and situated in a pleasant valley, between two branches of
the river Nera, whence it was called by the antients, Interamna.
Here is an agreeable piazza, where stands a church that was of
old a heathen temple. There are some valuable paintings in the
church. The people are said to be very civil, and provisions to
be extremely cheap. It was the birthplace of the emperor Tacitus,
as well as of the historian of the same name. In our journey from
hence to Spoleto, we passed over a high mountain, (called, from
its height, Somma) where it was necessary to have two additional
horses to the carriage, and the road winds along a precipice.
which is equally dangerous and dreadful. We passed through part
of Spoleto, the capital of Umbria, which is a pretty large city.
Of this, however, I give no other account from my own
observation, but that I saw at a distance the famous Gothic
aqueduct of brick: this is mentioned by Addison as a structure,
which, for the height of its arches, is not equalled by any thing
in Europe.
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