 | John Moore - Italy - 1787 - 532 pages
...extremities, where it is much U 3 " higher. higher. People of fafhion generally drive through this paflage with torches, but the country people and foot paflengers...from above. .. Mr. Addifon tells us, that the common •'•••'•• *••".*'*. . ,J people of Naples, in his time, believed that this paflage through... | |
 | 1791 - 822 pages
...of famion generally drive through this way with torches; but the country people and foot paffengers find their way, without much difficulty, by the light which enters at the extremities, and at two apertures pierced through the roof, near the middle of the grotto. — Mr. Addifon tells us, that the... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1794 - 748 pages
...fafhion generally drive through this paflage with torches, but the country people and foot p:iffengers find their way without much difficulty, by the light...holes pierced through the mountain near the middle cf the grotto, which admit light from above. U By By whom this grotto was firft made is uncertain.... | |
 | John Walker - Atlases - 1795 - 806 pages
...height. People of tafhion generally drive through this paiTige with torchts ; but the country peopk- find their way, without much difficulty, by the light which enters at the extremities, and at * holes pierced through the mountain, near the middle ot the grotto, which admit light from above.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1797 - 822 pages
...it is much more elevated. People of fafhion generally drive through this paffage with torches ; but the light which enters at the extremities, and at two holes, pierced through the mountain, renders it not difficult for paWengers to find their way. Two miles beyond this grotto is a circular... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 512 pages
...fafhion generally drive through this way with torches ; but the country people and foot paffengers find their way, without much difficulty, by the light which enters at the extremities, and at two apertures pierced through the roof, near the middle of the grotto. — Mr Addifon tells us, that the... | |
 | John Walker - Geography - 1801 - 978 pages
...through this paflage with torches ; but the country people find their way, without much difficulty, hy the light which enters at the extremities, and at...middle of the grotto, which admit light from above. On this mountain alio, is the celebrated tomb of Virgil, overgrown with ivy, nnd (haded with branches,... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Classical dictionaries - 1802 - 914 pages
...ЫЪшп generally drive through this p.iiTige with torches, but the country people and foot paflengcrc find their way without much difficulty, by the light which enters at the extremities, and at two lióles pierced through the mountain pear the midcMe of the grotto, which admit light from above. By... | |
 | John Harwood Moore - Italy - 1803 - 506 pages
...fafhion generally drive through this paffage with torches, but the country peopleand foot paffengers find their way without much difficulty by the light...people of Naples, in his time, believed that this paffage through the mountain was the work of magic, and that Virgil was the magician. But this is the... | |
 | Richard Brookes - Geography - 1812 - 822 pages
...height. People of fashion generally drive through this passage with torches ; but the country people find their way, without much difficulty, by the light...middle of the grotto, which admit light from above. On this mountain also is the celebrated tomb of Virgil, overgrown with ivy, and shaded with an ancient... | |
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People of fafhion generally drive through this paffage with torches, but the country people and foot paflengers find their way without much difficulty by the light which enters at the extremities, and at two holes pierced through the mountain near the... 
