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faw feme -remains -of an infcription, in .cubital letters, on .a
•large cubick mats .of ilone, b.ut time .had corrpded it fo much,
that few o f the letters -were legible:. . The Morlacchi, not
long ago, dug out of thefe ruins, now covered with grafs and
brufhwood, a .noble monument, on which the name of that
ruined city, is infcribed.’j but, through; barbarous ignorance,
..they broke it into-three .piepes', -in order to tranfport it with lefs
'fatigue to, Seign.; andione o f t-hcfe; pie.c-es, which is now wanting,;
juft ha'ppens to be'that which.contained the name o f the
refpe<3able man in honour o f whom the monument was eredted.
On the fide of the hill o f '¿Equum there was in former times
.an amphitheatre, not very large, as appears by its ruins,, dif-
pofed in a> circular form, and now covered with earth and .grafs.
-The canals are ftill vifible that.-ferved to conduit the water into
its area, and they -have been cut- out o f the live rock, not
built. It appears that the /frlquenjes levelled the place appointed
for the edjfice;bpfore they dug. the-canals., for they are cut
in the itone that forms the little hill, then covered with marble
flabs, and.run winding-under the ruins: the largeft is about t.w,o
feet fquare, and the fmalleft .little more than one. The itone
on which the f&quenfes worked is exceedingly tender, and al-
.moil farinaceous. I took a fpecimen of it near the mouth of
.the fmaller aqueduct, and find it has fome analogy to the fciffile
.itone o f Bole a of the fofteftkind. No fragments or remains of
.marine animals are difcoverable in it, though it contains fome
-fmall leaves o f fea-weed, or at leaft o f fomething that very
'much refembles it. This kind of itone does not refill cold, and
I believe it is apt to Oliver by the heal; o f the fun after rain;
hence the infcription which we found expofed to the open air is
loft. Father Goronelli calls this place Nojae., noting that it
was
was taken from the Turks by- the Venetian General Valiero in \
1685. Lueio,- in his -memoirs '- of-’ Trau, calls - it Cbglivich.
Luccarij a - Ragufeaii annaliit, - not remembring • that the dip- ;
thong fotfietimes makes-a great difference in the .ngiiification of-
words;, -and-not having'conful ted t-heban.c-ienf-ge-r-griip'hers,- pretended
f lia t- the- ’Colonih-l/Equenfis- was -about fix m.il.esjd’ii.tahl from '
the ancient lip:¿turns in a place- Called Cognvz, but -he n ! ;
ferved the ancient itineraries,!by which 'h emight have■ diicove - -
ed his rriiftake.- ’ Cogniix might have been fubitituted for EqnUi-1
wn:, i f iff th'ofe- parts there had been anciently a place - o f tint
name: derived from-hbrfes. - Kogn in' -Sclavonic fignifies "Equus a-
horfe, but not any thing that has a relation to. jufihde'a .a? -'ajttum ’
fignifies.. On- the road from M.quum to-Seign there is a view of
a confiderable number o f little hills fcattered in very ple-afant
perfpeftive, and Covered with large trees, near Which the Morlacchi
generally build their cottages-.!- The bafc o f thefe protuberances
is fometimes of:an aih coloured clay, containing- fofiil -
fhetls.
O f the V u l c a n i c hills, and Jakes c ^ K r in ; and o f the Gypsum- S
" o f Seign. ' .
We flopped at Kr(n, where we were courteoily treated w i th -
honey combs by the poor inhabitant o f a cottage, more delightfully
fituated than many grand-palaces. - He did not defend ,
himfelf, in- any manner, , from the revenge o f the bees, in extracting
the honey ; . yet none o f them flung him, although lie
felt about for what he wanted in the hive with great delibera-
tion. The honey was delicious.beyond expreffion, .and w h ile :
we were eating ftj under the thade of the trees, the poor man’s
eldeit daughter came and prefented each o fu s with a nofegay of
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