The
People Here Have No Idea Of Using Milk, And When You Ask Them For
It, They Stand Gaping With A Foolish Face Of Surprise, Which Is
Exceedingly Provoking.
It is amazing that instinct does not teach
the peasants to feed their children with goat's milk, so much
more nourishing and agreeable than the wretched sustenance on
which they live.
Next day we rowed by Vado and Savona, which last
is a large town, with a strong citadel, and a harbour, which was
formerly capable of receiving large ships: but it fell a
sacrifice to the jealousy of the Genoese, who have partly choaked
it up, on pretence that it should not afford shelter to the ships
of war belonging to those states which might be at enmity with
the republic.
Then we passed Albifola, Sestri di Ponente, Novi, Voltri, and a
great number of villages, villas, and magnificent palaces
belonging to the Genoese nobility, which form almost a continued
chain of buildings along the strand for thirty miles.
About five in the afternoon, we skirted the fine suburbs of St.
Pietro d' Arena, and arrived at Genoa, which makes a dazzling
appearance when viewed from the sea, rising like an amphitheatre
in a circular form from the water's edge, a considerable way up
the mountains, and surrounded on the land side by a double wall,
the most exterior of which is said to extend fifteen miles in
circuit. The first object that strikes your eye at a distance, is
a very elegant pharos, or lighthouse, built on the projection of
a rock on the west side of the harbour, so very high, that, in a
clear day, you may see it at the distance of thirty miles.
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