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The above is in the facrifty o f the church o f S. Ifadoro in
Cherjo.
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This fepulchral’mohmnent is: half buried in the fqualid cottage
df a poor péafant, in the beautiful and ill cultivated iiland
o f Sanfego-
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BY W A Y OF A PPEN D IX TO' TH E E SSAY O F OBSERV
A T ION S ON TH E ISLAN D O F C H E R S O AND-
O S E R O .
T H E defire o f rendering my book o f obfervations on th e -
ifland o f Cher/o’ and Ofero, which is the refult o f the
voyage njadedaft year in your company, and that o f the learned
Dri Cirilli, Ufa itnperfedl, had made -me projedl to crofs the
Adriatick again. Our courteous hofts invited me, and my own >
health required a change o f air 5 but feveral caufes-concurred to
detain, me. A gen-teel invitation-from your illuftrious friend the ;
Bifhop of Derry the gulf,
animated by the defire o f refiding fome days-.with fo fo^rpd and
amiable a-perfon, and met him at Pola. You are already informed,
that, on account o f fome fufpicions of the health office, we were
obliged to keep forty days at a diftance from the ifland; that
the frelh eruption o f Vefuvius, announced in the news pipers,.
was a temptation we could not refill; and accordingly.we paffe.d
over from Rovigno to Ancona, in hopes to get in time to a part i
of the feaft; but at Rome had the unwelcome news that the
mountain was become quiet. You may imagine we did not fail
to