[2] The Welsh proverb, that a man who sleeps on the top of Snowdon, must awake either a fool or a poet, refers as probably to the effect produced on the mind by the prodigious mountain panorama discernible from thence, as to any fancied influence of the genius loci.
[3] Vide Cooke's View.
[4] The characteristic beauties of Italy are no proof of the picturesque taste of the Italians themselves, as planners and architects. The commanding situation of their villages, and the small proportion of window to wall, are circumstances favourable to landscape, but intended merely as the means of catching and retaining cool air. Their classical ruins are preserved as a source of pride and profit, and the natural features of the country cannot be altered.
[5] Vide Cooke's View.
[6] Vide Cooke's Views.
[7] Vide Cooke's Views.
[8] Collot d'Herbois.
[9] See Godwin's St. Leon.
[10] Vide Cooke's Views.
[11] There is, I believe, positive historical authority, which fixes Vienne as the place of Pilate's banishment and death.