The Inn
Where We Put Up Was A Pretty Good One, And As This Lake Abounds In Fish, We
Had
Some excellent trout and pike for supper; among other dishes there was
one that was very gratifying to me, an
Old East and West Indian; and that
was the Peveroni or large red and green peppers or capsicums fried in
oil. Some excellent Orvieto wine crowned our repast, and helped to restore
us from our fatigues.
On leaving Bolsena the next morning, the 7th, and within a very short
distance from that town we entered a thick and venerable forest, thro'
which the road runs for several miles. Fine old trees of immense height
covered with foliage and thickly studded together give to this forest an
aweful and romantic appearance. It is quite a lucus opaca ingens. This
forest has been held sacred since the earliest times and is even now held
in such superstitious veneration by the people that they do not allow it to
be cut. The Dryads and Hamadryads have no doubt long ago taken their
flight, but the wood, from its length and opaqueness, inspired me with some
apprehension lest it might be the abode of some modern votaries of Mercury,
people having confused ideas of meum and tuum, and the appropriative
faculty too strongly developed in their organization, and I expected every
moment to hear a shot and the terrible cry of ferma; but we met with no
accident nor did we fall in with a living soul.
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