The bowling-green, called Gli Sparti, and the ramparts, are the favourite promenades. The convent of Monte Ne vi:), at a short distance from Leghorn, is highly celebrated. Leghorn contains no antiquities. The water of Leghorn is so bad, that the opulent inhabitants supply themselves from Pisa.
The principal imports of Leghorn from Great Britain arc, alum, Jesuits' bark, cassia, fistula, and lignea, cinna mon, cloves, nutmegs, pepper, pimento, black and white ginger, Caracca, West India and Maranham cocoa, coffee, black and silver cochineal, Pernambuco, Maranham, Bahia, and Bengal cotton, cod and stockfish, Buenos Ayres and Brazil hides, East India, Caracca, and Guatimala indigo, lead in pigs, lead ore, litharge, nankeens in short pieces, Jamaica and Leewards Islands rum, raw and refined sugar, Havanna white and brown, Brazil ditto, tin in plates 4d sin gle, and }d double, Virginia and Brazil tobacco, English and Scotch wheat, fustic, logwood, Brazil or Pernambuco wood, Nicaragua in large logs, Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham manufactures.
The principal exports of Leghorn are, sweet and bitter almonds, anchovies, Bologna white argil, Florence ditto, red and white, Sicily barilla, juniper berries, Sicily rough brimstone, Tuscan ditto in rolls, cantharides, Parmesan cheese, cream of tartar, Zante currants, essence of berga mot and lemon, Smyrna black galls, Aleppo black galls in sorts, gum arabic and tragacanth, Bologna hemp, Irios root,, liquorice, paste, lemon juice, madder root of Cyprus and Smyrna, manna in flakes and in sorts, Lucca oil in jars and in half chests, Gallipoli oil, orange peel and buds, quicksil ver, Lipari and Smyrna raisins, Tuscan rags, sponges, saff flower, saffron aquilla's, Sicily sumac, senna, Tuscan lamb and kid skins, white and mottled soap, valonea, &c.
The population of this town is variously stated. Some make it 60, and even 70,000 ; others from 40 to 50,000; and Eustace calls it only 30,000. East Long. 10° 16' 45", and North Lat. 43° 33' 5". See Eustace's Travels, vol.
p. 295.