A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII, Volume 2J. Mawman, 39, Ludgate Street, 1817 - Italy |
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Page 32 - Vatican is now the peaceful theatre of some of the most majestic ceremonies of the pontifical court j it is the repository of the records of ancient science, and the temple of the arts of Greece and Rome. Under these three heads it commands the attention of every traveller of curiosity, taste, and information. The exterior...
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Page 6 - ... alternations of green and mottled beds, shows a gradual thinning, and finally seems to be lost entirely. One of the greatest difficulties met with, in this investigation, has been the occurrence of red and greenish shales in the Chemung and Portage beds ; and the finding of gray beds with Chemung fossils at an elevation of at least one hundred and fifty feet above the base of the red rocks, which had always been referred to the Catskill formation. We have finally, however, ascertained, as I believe,...
Page 8 - Strabo says that such a quantity of water was introduced into the city, that whole rivers seemed to flow through the streets and down the sewers, so that every house had its pipes and cisterns sufficient to furnish a copious and perpetual supply.
Page 8 - ... was introduced into the city, that whole rivers seemed to flow through the streets and down the sewers, so that every house had its pipes and cisterns sufficient to furnish a copious and perpetual supply. The modern Romans though inferior in numbers and opulence to their ancestors, have shewn equal taste and spirit in this respect, and deserve a just eulogium, not only for having procured an abundance of water, but for the splendid and truly imperial style in which it is poured forth for public...
Page 193 - Virgil! We entered; a vaulted cell and two modern windows alone present themselves to. view : the poet's name is the only ornament of the place. No sarcophagus, no urn, and even no inscription to feed the devotion of the classical pilgrim. The epitaph which though not genuine is yet ancient, was inscribed by...
Page 193 - ... placed on a sort of platform on the brow of a precipice on one side, and on the other sheltered by a superincumbent rock. An aged ilex, spreading from the sides of the rock, and bending over the edifice, covers the roof with its ever-verdant foliage.
Page 6 - Lateran, to set each other off to more advantage. Three only of the ancient aqueducts now remain to supply modern Rome, and yet such is the quantity they convey, and so pure the sources whence they derive it, that no city can boast of such a profusion of clear and salubrious water.
Page 193 - What is at present called the tomb, is in the form of a small, a2 square, flat-roofed building, placed on a sort of platform, near the brow of a precipice on one side, and on the other sheltered by a superincumbent rock. Half a century ago, when More travelled in Italy, an ancient laurel (a shoot •perhaps of the same which Petrarch had planted) overhung the simple edifice.