April 26. Genoa.  Strawberries at Genoa.  Scaffold poles for the upper parts of a wall, as for the third story, rest on the window sills of the story below.  Slate is used here for paving, for steps, for stairs (the rise as well as tread), and for fixed Venetian blinds.  At the Palazzo Marcello Durazzo, benches with straight legs, and bottoms of cane.  At the Palazzo del Prencipe Lomellino, at Sestri, a phaeton with a canopy.  At the former, tables folding into one plane.  At Nervi they have pease, strawberries, &c. all the year round.  The gardens of the Count Durazzo at Nervi, exhibit as rich a mixture of the utile dulci, as I ever saw.  All the environs in Genoa are in olives, figs, oranges, mulberries, corn, and garden-stuff.  Aloes in many places, but they never flower.

April 28. Noli.  The Apennine and Alps appear to me to be one and the same continued ridge of mountains, separating every where the waters of the Adriatic Gulf from those of the Mediterranean.  Where it forms an elbow, touching the Mediterranean, as a smaller circle touches a larger, within which it is inscribed, in the manner of a tangent, the name changes from Alps to Apennine.  It is the beginning of the Apennine which constitutes the state of Genoa, the mountains there generally falling down in barren, naked precipices into the sea.  Wherever there is soil on the lower parts, it is principally in olives and figs, in vines also, mulberries, and corn.  Where there are hollows well protected, there are oranges.  This is the case at Golfo della Spezia, Sestri, Bugiasco, Nervi, Genoa, Pegli, Savona, Finale, Oneglia (where there are abundance), St. Rerno, Ventimiglia, Mentone, and Monaco.  Noli, into which I was obliged to put, by a change of wind, is forty miles from Genoa.  There are twelve hundred inhabitants in the village, and many separate houses round about.  One of the precipices hanging over the sea, is covered with aloes.  But neither here, nor any where else I have been, could I procure satisfactory information that they ever flower.  The current of testimony is to the contrary.  Noli furnishes many fishermen.  Paths penetrate up into the mountains in several directions, about three fourths of a mile; but these are practicable only for asses and mules.  I saw no cattle nor sheep in the settlement.  The wine they make, is white and indifferent.  A curious cruet for oil and vinegar in one piece, I saw here.  A bishop resides here, whose revenue is two thousand livres, equal to sixty-six guineas.  I heard a nightingale here.

April 29. Albenga.  In walking along the shore from Louano to this place, I saw no appearance of shells.  The tops of the mountains are covered with snow, while there are olive trees, &c. on the lower parts.  I do not remember to have seen assigned any where, the cause of the apparent color of the sea.  Its water is generally clear and colorless, if taken up and viewed in a glass.  That of the Mediterranean is remarkably so.  Yet in the mass,