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ORVIETO

Volume 8 · 67 words · 1778 Edition

a town of Italy in the patrimony of St Peter, with a bishop's see and a magnificent palace. In this place there is a deep well, into which mules descend by one pair of stairs to fetch up water, and ascend by another. It is seated on a craggy rock, near the confluence of the rivers Pagli and Chiana.

E. Long. 12. 10. N. Lat. 42. 42.