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the ToWn Walls very High, and ihe 4 Gates Strongly Guarded : belowwhich is a Ditch of about 15, or 10 Tards ovev, and very Deep. NoStranger is allow’d to view the Works, nor Soldier permitted to come outof the Caflles. About 4000 Slaves are there, as the Merchanrs told us,who are lockt up in theBagno every Night. The Piazx,a, where the Met-chants Meet, i* Adorn’d with Marble Piliars , which sustain the Portico’s :at the East End of which is the Great Churcb , whosc Roof appears veryGlorious, having scveral Circles Richly Gilded and Painted with CuriousFigures. The Broad Street is Paved between 2 and 3 Tards on each fidewith Free-jlcne.

Z~j. In the Afcernoon we Weighed out of Livorne-Road.

29. We werc forc’d back by Contrary Winds.

30, Wc Weighed a 2d Time.

Nov. 5. At Evening we (aw the Eruptions of Fire from Stromboli, whichlies to the North-West of Siciljt. Sometimes it Flam’d very Bright as aBeacon, at other times rhere appear’d only a Glowing kind of Light, likethat of an ordinary Star when the Air is Thick and Hazy, They say thatit Flames most in Rainy Weather,

6 : In the Morning we wcre up within a League of it, and plainly per-ctiv’d it to Smoke. It is of a Round Figure, and as we gather’d, may beabout 3 61-4 Miles in Compasi. Not far from it lye scatter’d scveral otherIslands, call’d by the Ancients isüolia and Vulcania : among which arcLipara , a long Flattilh Island, and Vulcannello , which Smokfs most. ThisAfternoon we came to an Anchor in 8 Fathoxn Water in the Phare of Mef-fina t in the Mid*Stream between Scylla and Charibdü : a Violent CurrentSetting against us, and the Wind not High enough, so as to be able toStemm it. The Breadth of the Strait from Meßina to Rhegium may beabout a League. The Land is very High on the Calabrian fide» where arevery Steep Rocks, and great Depth of Water , above iyo Fathom ,as they told us: but on the Sicilian fide, near the Charibdis Shole Water,and usually an Eddy. On the Sandy Banks stand s the Phare or Watch -Tower. Several Currents Meeting in this narrow Passage, cause a greatRipling ; and the Waterg are sometimes carry’d N. and sometimes 8. thegreat danger is lest tbe Current drive the Ship on either Side. Wehave hadno Lightming for 7 or 8 Nights together.

7. WeSailed by <^£tna, nowcalfd Mongibel, where the Sea Widens 10or 11 Leagues over. Now we sce plainly the Smoak briskly issuing out ofthe Crater, the Limbus of which was all Black. The uppermost part of theMountain was covered with Snow, except some streaks otAfhes, as wejudge,which lies as it were in a Cutter, spread here and there.

i; We were up with Cape Modona, the Southermost Cape of the Moreaand sail’d by Coron. The Land very High, the Hillß of Arcadia lying East-ward from us. The Weather Excejßve Hot at this time, as it is in Englandat Midfummer.