The Course of Hannibal Over the Alps Ascertained (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ticer of a new circumftance in It. : ITie faft itfelf wants no additional witnefs, but the circilmftance is as ftrikmg as it is'novel. An- author, who has trS veiled with much attention htmfelf, and has publifh- ed his own obfefvations with thofe'ef others to'much advantage; informs us Concerning our St. Bernard, that on it are " the rerriains'of a Roman Temple'; "'where infcnptibns, Medals,' and fome bronze " ftatues, have been. found V He krtew the quality of the medals; as well as the niture of the ftatues and Jnfcriptio'ns; but did not fpec;fy that of any, left he Jhould be drawn away by the fpecification, to a length incompatible with his plan. Like our own Hannibal, he only pafTes over St. Bernard in his fvay to Italy, and does but juft make a halt upon k, Kke him, in his eagernefs to reach his point of defti- nation. But he ufefully informs us, that the medals were found where we know the infcriptions and the ftatues to have been difcovered, in the ruins of Jupiter's Temple there. This circutrTftance is entirely his own. Of die infcriptions and the ftatues, he might know from Guichenon and Sauffure; of the very medals he might learn from Bourrit; but the difcovery of the medals in the fame'ruins with themt he could collec t only from his own notices, . ..-: a... . " . Gentleman's Guide 25, and what is the fame work tn- larged sad im/k,:, A Tear through Italy, Set, by Thomas Mar- fynp ?.,.D,.F.Ri.. Prafjsilbr of Botany in tlie Uiiiverfity of Cambridge. A-new edition, 1792, p. ai. D 2 Thus Thus foufid however, they form an important part of the temple's relicks: and come in more ufefully than the ftatues and infcriptions themfelves, to illuf- trate the courfe of Hannibal over the Alps. In that fpirit of pious gratitude, which had engraven all the infcription...