THE THIRD SERIES. 1. FELIX ADVENT. AVG. G. NN. PEN. Reverse of Dioclestau 2. AFRICA. S. C. 3. AFRICA. S. C. 4. EGIPTOS. S. C. Reverse of Septimius Severus. Reverse of Adrian. Reverse of Adrian. 5. MAVRETANIA. S. C. Reverse of Adrian. 6. HISPANIA. S. C. Reverse of Adrian. 7. ADVENTVI AVG. GALLIÆ. S. C. Reverse of Adrian. 8. ITALIA. S. C. Reverse of Marcus Antoninus. 9. ROMA. S. C. Reverse of Nero. .0. RESTITVTORI ACHAIÆ. Reverse of Adrian. 11. BRITANNIA. Reverse of Antoninus Pius. 12. RESTITVTORI SICILIÆ. S. C. Reverse of Adrian. 13. IVDEA CAPTA. S. C. 14. VICTORIA AVGVSTI. S. C. } Reverse of Vespasian. 15. PARTHIA. S. C. COS. II. Reverse of Antoninus Pius. 16. ANTIOCHIA. 17. ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ Κ. ΣΜΥΡΝ. ΣΤΡ. Τ. ΦΑΒ. ΑΛ. ΑΠΟΛΛΙΝΑΡΙΟΥ Reverse of Marcus Aurelius. 18. ARAB. ADQ. S. P. Q. R. OPTIMO PRINCIPI. S. C. Reverse of Trajan. REMARKS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF ITALY, &c. IN THE YEARS 1701, 1702, 1703. Verum ergo id est, si quis in cœlum ascendisset, naturamque mundi et pulchritudinem siderum perspexisset, insuavem illam admirationem ei fore, quæ jucundissima fuisset, si aliquem cui narraret habuisset. CICER. DE AMIC. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERS. BARON OF EVESHAM. MY LORD, THERE is a pleasure in owning obligations which it is an honour to have received, but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude. I had a very early ambition to recommend myself to your Lordship's patronage, which yet increased in me as I travelled through the countries of which I here give your Lordship some account: for whatever great impressions an Englishman must have of your Lordship, they who have been conversant abroad will find them still improved. It cannot but be obvious to them, that though they see your Lordship's admirers everywhere, they meet with very few of your wellwishers at Paris or at Rome. And I could not but observe, when I passed through most of the Protestant governments in Europe, that their hopes or fears for the common cause rose or fell with your Lordship's interest and authority in England. I here present your Lordship with the remarks that I made in a part of these my travels; wherein, notwithstanding the variety of the subject, I am very sensible that I offer |