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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14029	The traueiler of Ierome Turler deuided into two bookes. The first conteining a notable discourse of the maner, and order of traueiling ouersea, or into straunge and forrein countreys. The second comprehending an excellent description of the most delicious realme of Naples in Italy. A woorke very pleasaunt for all persons to reade, and right profitable and necessarie vnto all such as are minded to traueyll.; De peregrinatione et agro Neapolitano libri II. English	Turler, Jerome, 1550-1602.	1575 (1575)	STC 24336; ESTC S118699	65,399	210

and narrower towarde eche ende to the representacion of an Egge on the outsyde more decayed and defaced then the Amphiteater of Rome is but wythinsyde more tyghte and whole For it is full of Seates and all benched about although in some places the seates bée couered with earthe and ouergrowne with bushes and the compasse of the wall is whole and sounde which reacheth vp a great height In my iudgemēt this Amphithetre is one of the most auncient Romane Antiquities that remayne at this day Not far from this standeth another building ful of chambers of a wounderful strange Arte and Workemanship diuided into many Celles the one leadyng vnto the other Euerie Cell hath four doores to passe through to the next adioyning whereby I suspecte that it was sometime a Labyrinth the Italians call it Le Camerelle Moreouer in the hauen and Bosome wherin Puteoli standeth are séene hugie Pyles and Péeres in the maine Sea builded a longe crosse the Sea from the shoare of Puteoli vnto the lande on the other side by Caligula the Emperour as Suetonius and Dion Cassius do write Likwise there lyeth the Ilande Crape or rather as Dion tearmeth it Caprea into which Tiberius the Emperour withdrewe himselfe when hée soughte a solitarie place auoiding the sight of the people ¶ An hill arising out of the grounde The. 12. Chapter THis thing moreouer is not to bée ouerpassed with silence that in the same place of the Realme of Naples which they call Tripergula and neare vnto the village which wée shewed before was somtime Ciceroes Academie not many yéeres agoe that is to say in the yéere of our Lorde M. D. xxxviij there suddeinly arose an hill out of the grounde which remaineth vnto thys day conteining in compasse about foure myles Béefore this Hill arose there were continually Earthquakes in that place the space of certein dayes without intermission and fiers of Brimstonie substaunce and of that liquour whych commonlye is called Oleum Petrae Oyle of the Rocke But anone when thys fier béegan to growe to a great flame and when the matter of the fyer was some deale spent there insued suche tumbling out of stones and such flying vp of Ashes fierce windes and horrible perturbacion of the ayre that it was feared that all the whole frame of the worlde would fall All whyche accidentes Leander Bononiensis hath diligently noted and béefore him a certeyne Salernitane wryting in the Italian tongue one that béehelde that wofull and terrible Tragedie Simon Portius lykewyse wroate of the same matter in a Booke intituled Of the burnyng of the Realme of Naples And although thys wonderfull and strange spectacle was the handye woorke of God who ruleth the inferiour course of Nature yet are the causes thereof to bée weyghed if there bée any to bée founde to depende vppon naturall reason It is lyke that the causes therof procéeded from spirites and exhalacions of qualitie fierce and sharpe and verie myghtye included in the Earthe so that it was able to lift it vp and when the Earthe by reason of the weyght thereof stoutely resisted ●he exhalacions it was by that great force therof mightily driuen out of the place where it was before For the flying out of so great abundance of stones and ashes declareth that there was great abundance of such exhalacions shewing that the earthe was for the more part consumed and resolued into ayre After this maner and by eruption of spirites out of the earthe the Poet Ouid wytnesseth that there rise an Hillocke out of a plain field néere to the Citie Troizena in these wordes Not far from Pythei Troizene is a certen high ground found All voyd of trees which heretofore was plain and leuell ground But now a mountaine It is possible also that there may bée new Ilandes found in waters howbeit not insuing vpō that same cause which Seuera allegeth to haue hapned in his time when the Ilands Theron and Therea grewe in the Sea not by any allunion or breaking in as in times past the Ilandes Echinades came of whom Plinie hath noted somewhat or else as Aegypt which Herodotus tearmeth the gifte of the Ryuer but by abreaking foorth and rising vp of the Earth whilst many men looked vpon it For the exhalations and windes are many times so vehement and sharpe that they lifte vp the Earth quight aboue the water Semblably Ouid writeth that by casting of twigges and boughes into the water there grew an Iland in the ryuer Tyber And verely all this change and alteration is not deuoyd of naturall reason howbeit no man hath euer declared the causes of them more substancially then hath Strabo where hée sayth Forasmuch as all things do continually mooue and are chaunged we must suppose that the earth remaineth not alwayes one so that nothing is put to it or taken from it nor yet the water whose transmutacion alteration is naturall and well knowne This much Strabo But let vs nowe come to the Citie of Naples The hill Pausilypus The. 13. Chapter THus traueiling from the Countrey and Territoryes of Puteolis towards the Citie of Naples at the laste stone from the Citie wée passe ouer an hill which they call Pausilypus The same being hollowed through at the foot hath a plaine a direct passage through it in length béeynge halfe an Italian myle or somewhat more and so wyde that two Cartes ladē may easely passe one by an other but in height it is altogether vnéeuen For at the entrance at both ends which are like two great gates it is so wyde that a man on horsbacke holdyng vp a speare in his hande may enter into it not touch that top but within the height diminisheth by litle ● litle and in no place excéedeth the height of three men This Hill was in thys sorte by great industrie made hollow and leuelled and made smoothe on both sides méeting togither va●twise in the top At eche entrance at both sides are holes at eche hande one wherby there commeth in the Sun light but in the mydle it hath no lyght at al. By reason whereof it commeth to passe that when two horses or Cartes or mo do méete in that place then they cry aloude alla Montagna or alla Marina that is to say hold of to the hilward or to the seaward that therby ech of thē may know on which side hee shall goe And it is thought among the common people that if any kill a man in this caue he can by no meanes get out of it this they say is found to be true by experience Now when you passe foorthe of this caue towardes the Citie of Naples there offer themselues to bée séene two Churches dedicated vnto our Lady whereof the one that is new lately built begynneth to be inritched largely indowed by reason of Notable miracles which they saye the Virgin Mary hath doone there the other is almost desolate and forlorne which in times past was very famous Which thing as I