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Title: Rome and Pompeii, archaeological rambles
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Boissier, Gaston, 1823-1908
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Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eturning fromtown, with their picturesque costume, their great boots,their pointed hats, and their long sticks slung acrossthe saddle. Time slips by ; the road continues to rise andfall, and the spectacle is always the same. At length,after two hours of this monotonous road, thickets areseen, trees reappear, and the horizon broadens. Webehold in the distance the parasol pines of Castel-Fusano, pass a few cornfields, and soon reach Ostia.^ Propertius, I. 14. - The Roman administration has not yet published a map show-ing the present state of the excavations at Ostia. At my request,M. Laloux, a member of the Académie de France at Rome, kindlyrepaired to Ostia, and, taking for the basis of his work a plan of Canina,marked out the discoveries made for twenty years past. If readers,thanks to the map he has traced, follow the account which they areabout to read of these discoveries with more facility and pleasure,they, like myself, will thank M. Laloux tor the trouble he has takenfor them.
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08TIA. 296 IfODRRN OSTIA—ASPECT OF TlIK PLAIN BY WHICH ANCIENT08TIA IS COVERED—HOW THE TOWN CAMK TO BEABANDONED—THE FIKST EXCAVATIONS MADE THERE—8I0N0R VISCONTIS LABOURS—DISCOVERY OP THESTREET OF TOMBS — THE HOUSE KNOWN AS THEIMPERIAL PALACE — THE GREAT TEMPLE AND THESTREET LEADING TOWARDS THE TIBEll—THE SHOPSSITUATED ALONG THE RIVEB. The modem town presents itself to us under the aspectof a church of the sixteenth century, and of an elegantcastle with the arms of Julius II. graven upon it.About the castle two or three houses are closelycrowded- They constitute the entire town. Duringthe fever season, which begins early and ends late, theinhabitants are about a dozen in number. In themonth of November, some hundreds of peasants arrivefrom the vicinity, crowd themselves into huts, andcultivate the country. As soon as the heats returnthey hasten away. On advancing a few steps beyond the houses and thechâteau, and looking around, one is struck by themajestic spectacle be

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