a frefh wind, that rifes about midnight in ail feafons, and blowing
from between the deep and narrow banks o f the river diffi-
pates the unhealthful. exhalations. Neverthelefs the Almiffans
are fubjedt to agues In the hot feafon.
The fiihing at the mouth o f the Cettina is very ill managed,
though the fituation is fo convenient that it might eafily be improved
to national advantage. The AlmitTans are fatisfied with
having refervoirs for their daily ufe, and think not of more ex-
tenfive advantages. Their fiih is o f exquifite tafte, and very
large, as is generally the cafe where the fea and river waters are
mixed. In the black fea, for example, fiihes grow, in a ihort
time, to a bulk beyond the proportion o f their kinds j and the
good naturalift Pliny attributes it to the numher o f rivers that
run into it.* But the Almiflans, to avoid the trouble o f fifoine
themfelves, rather chufe to leave it to the neighbouring iflanders,
and to buy the fiih from them.
T h e territory of Almifia run6 fifteen miles along the foore as
far as Brella, and, although not cultivated with:much skill, produces
excellent wine ^ the gopdnefs. o f the foil fupplying the
defe&S of cultivation. The Mofcadello, androld Profecco, o f A l-
miffa, and in general all the wines made there with any tolerable
¡care, defer-ve a place at the niccft tables. I f they were better
known, they would certainly be prefered to many foreign wines
■that are much more coftly, The Almiffa.nj have fame poficfiions
•On thecoa ft where the foil is of a bittami'nofi-s- -nature, and .the
wine mafic there retains the Buell of the foil.
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