On The Third Day, The Wind Being Abated, Though Still
Unfavourable, We Reimbarked And Rowed Along Shore, Passing By
Porto-Mauricio, And Oneglia; Then Turning The Promontory Called
Capo Di Melle, We Proceeded By Albenga, Finale, And Many Other
Places Of Inferior Note.
Portomauricio is seated on a rock washed
by the sea, but indifferently fortified, with an inconsiderable
harbour, which none but very small vessels can enter.
About two
miles to the eastward is Oneglia, a small town with
fortifications, lying along the open beach, and belonging to the
king of Sardinia. This small territory abounds with olive-trees,
which produce a considerable quantity of oil, counted the best of
the whole Riviera. Albenga is a small town, the see of a bishop,
suffragan to the archbishop of Genoa. It lies upon the sea, and
the country produces a great quantity of hemp. Finale is the
capital of a marquisate belonging to the Genoese, which has been
the source of much trouble to the republic; and indeed was the
sole cause of their rupture with the king of Sardinia and the
house of Austria in the year 1745. The town is pretty well built;
but the harbour is shallow, open, and unsafe; nevertheless, they
built a good number of tartans and other vessels on the beach and
the neighbouring country abounds with oil and fruit, particularly
with those excellent apples called pomi carli, which I have
mentioned in a former letter.
In the evening we reached the Capo di Noli, counted very
dangerous in blowing weather.
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