for its own ſake, tho' it has been the moſt magnificent of them all, as for a Chappel within it, which is appropriated to the Uſe of the Biſhop, and has under it a Priſon, or rather Dungeon, for thoſe Offenders who are ſo miſerable as to incur the ſpiritual Cenſure; this is certainly one of the moſt dreadful Places that Imagination can form, the Sea runs under it thro' the Hollows of the Rock with ſuch a continual Roar, that you would think it were every Moment breaking in upon you, and over it are the Vaults for burying the Dead. The Stairs deſcending to this Place of Terrors are not above Thirty, but ſo ſteep and narrow, that they are very difficult to go down, a Child of eight or nine Years old not being able to paſs them but ſideways. Within it are Thirteen Pillars, on which the whole Chappel is ſupported: They have a Superſtition that whatſoever Stranger goes to ſee this Cavern out of Curioſity, and omits to acount the Pillars, ſhall do ſomething to occaſion being confined there.
There are Places for Penance alſo under all the other Churches, containing ſeveral very dark and horrid Cells; ſome
have
