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Title: Eight journeys abroad
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosengarten, Mary D. Richardson, 1846-1913 Rosengarten, Frank H
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Algeria -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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atine, Quirinal, Esquiline, Vimlnal, Caelius and Aven-tine, and the most interesting remnants of old Rome lie near thetwo former. At the foot of the Capitoline are the ruins of theRoman Forum, considerably below the level of the modern city. There is very little standing now—a colonnade in one corner, what is left of the School of Xanthar, and there are eight columns of the Temple of Saturn, and three columns of the Temple of Jupiter, also the Arch of Septimius 40 ITALY Severus under which may yet be seen a remnant of the oldVia Sacra, and the ground all around is covered with frag-ments of columns. On the right, and covering the PalatineHill, are the ruins of the Palace of the Caesars, an immensemass which has only recently been discovered, the summitof the hill having been heretofore a public garden. Since thediscovery it is being excavated at the expense of Napoleon III.They have found three tiers of houses, built one uponthe other, first that built by Constantine II, that by the
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THE FORUM, ROME Caesars, and third that of Romulus. The mosaic pavementsin these old ruins are most wonderful and the amount ofelaborate carving in white marble, and the glorious oldcolunins are beyond description. Opposite these ruins are theBasilica of Constantine, and the temples of Antoninus andFaustina, and in between the temple of Venus and Roma,and in front of all the Coliseum, the grandest ruins in theworld. We climbed way up to the top of it, and could hardlybear to look down, the height is so tremendous. It is con-structed with four rows of seats, the lower for the Emperor 41 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD and Senate, the next for the nobility, the third for the middleclasses and the highest for the plebeians. I bought to-day a very fine stereoscopic view on glass, whichI paid nearly a dollar for; it is a new kind of view and con-sidered very beautiful. One day we visited the Baths ofCaracalla, a magnificent ruin, with beautiful mosaic pave-ments (it was here Shelley wrote most of th

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