154
The Voyage
Sanita,Remember this Bolettina, Traveller. taken here, to make us be let passe into the State of Florence, we steered on horse-back towards Florence and reacht it in two dayes. The first dayes journey by Pianora, Loiano, Scarga L'Azino, Pietra Mala, and over the Apennins,The Apennine Hills. was long and tedious enough, till the Night came, at which time we were much recreated with the sight of a Fire which appeared some two miles off in the side of a Mountain on our left hand. This Fire appears here frequently, especially in cloudy weather: and it appeared to me for an hour together as I rode along, to be still of the same bigness, and of the same glowy colour (fornace like) and of a perfect round form, and not pyramidal, as other flames are. The Countrey People here call this Fire, La Bocca d' Inferno, Hells mouth; and I know not why they may not as well call this Fire so, as Tertul. l. de Pœmitent. c. 12.Tertullian calls Vesuvius and Ætna (two burning Mountaines) Fumariola Inferni, Hells Chimneys. Taken in fine, with this fixed Meteor, we
forgot
