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CLASSICAL TOUR
SICAL

THROUGH

ITALY

An. MDCCCII.

Haec est Italia diis sacra, hae gentes ejus, haec
oppida populorum.

Plin. Nat. Hist. iii. 20.

BY THE

REV. JOHN CHETWODE EUSTACE

FOURTH EDITION.

To this edition, carefully revised, corrected and amended,
is added a description of the most remarkable exca-
vations of POMPEI subsequent to the author's tour,
with a plan of that ancient city, and references to the
same, and moreover an itinerary of the posts on the
principal roads, and a list of the most celebrated, and
commodious Inns throughout Italy

Its Population-Streets-Squares-Fountains-Tombs-Palaces.

THE modern city, as the reader must have

already observed, possesses many features of ancient Rome. The same roads lead to her gates from the extremities of Italy; the same aqueducts pour the same streams into her fountains; the same great churches that received the masters of the world under the Flavian and Theodosian lines, are still open to their descendants; and the same ve

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