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Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he zest to know more than any guide orbook tells, and whet the desire to hear of them fromhis own lips: the prehistoric memorial of Romulus,still lower than the excavated level of the Forum, theHouse of Vestal Virgins, Altar where Julius Caesarsbody was cremated, old church near Palatine Hill,School of Pages on Palatine Hill where the celebratedGraffito—or rude caricature—of the Crucifixion wasfound traced on the wall. House of the Father ofTiberius, to say nothing of the outHning of the greatPalaces of the Caesars. Then what an interest cen-ters about that Church of St. Gregory, not far off,from which St. Augustine, the missionary, with hismonks started at the behest of Gregory for that jour-ney which may be said to have found for its goalUttle St. Martins at Canterbury, which is so wellknown to American as well as Enghsh pilgrims.Some day let us hope that memorable journey willbe discovered to be not a family-jar matter but apride of blood-relationship between the catholic- (141
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