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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a massive colonnadeof marble pillars emerging in the great open Piazzabefore the doors of St. Peters, and halted for amoment beside the Egyptian obelisk. Sheila drewin her breath with a gasp and clutched my arm. Oh Roy ! she murmured, and was silent; butthat Oh expressed her thoughts more than anyvolume of words could have done. Passing thebeautiful old Fort of St. Angelo, we crossed FatherTiber by the statue-embellished bridge above itsflowing waters. * And this is the Eternal City, breathed Sheilain my ear. Look there, I replied, stopping Mercedes. Isnt that the Rome of your dreams, and Ipointed across the Tiber. We were high abovethe swift grey river across which stretched thestatued bridge leading to St. Angelo, and silhouettedagainst a glowing sky of gold rose the massive domeof the father of churches. Yes, said Sheila slowly, as her eyes took in thescene, monument after monument. Yes, thatsRome. But stay, theres one thing missing—theColiseum. I couldnt think of Rome without156
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^ « ij y^ TO THE HOME OF THE CAESARS its memory rising like a ghost in the back-ground. Then you shall see it now, I answered quickly,and in a moment Mercedes was gliding along theembankment and turned at right angles to theTiber, plunging into a maze of narrow streets. The Pantheon, I announced as we paused beforethe sixteen granite columns which support itsmassive front. Again we dived into the narrowstreets and threaded our way into south, andancient Rome. I was pleased to find that mymemory of the intricate knot of old streets inthis quarter remained clear, and save for oneslight slip I was able to steer Mercedes withouta mistake through one narrow street after another,and emerge this time beside a ruined arch. The Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus,the ruined Forum, and the Palatine, the homeof the Csesars, I said waving my hand in introduc-tion. This, this is Rome, cried Sheila in ecstasy. How wonderful it all seems, almost like adream. Passing along the edge of the Forum in f

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