[Footnote 55: The lake, from the neighbouring towns of
Etruria, was styled either Vulsiniensis (now of Bolsena) or
Tarquiniensis. It is surrounded with white rocks, and stored
with fish and wild-fowl. The younger Pliny (Epist. ii. 96
<95>) celebrates two woody islands that floated on its
waters: if a fable, how credulous the ancients ! If a fact,
how careless the moderns ! Yet, since Pliny, the island may
have been fixed by new and gradual accessions.]