The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-02

| its gigantic proportions, as the dark
shadows were deepened in their
gloom by contrast with the sharp,
irregular, and often ragged outline s
silyered by the full food of Luna.
There is nothing in the world like an
hour by moonlight spent In this ruin.
The vastness of the place, which
grows upon you as you ascend !;
the rising tiers one above the
other, broken through into black
yawning chasms and vaults, up
wards terminating into irregular.
jagged outlines, here and there Sill
vered like the lining of the threaten
ing thunder cloud, with that food of
soft light, is an impression not easily
effaced from memory. Deep silence
reigned around, not even 1.-The watch
dogs bay beyond. the Tiber'' or 1.-THE
owls long cry which Byron seems
the place until we-for there were
three of us-struck up the 'Red,
White and Blue, and willingly
did the old arches and vaults ring
with, the echo of our voices. !, Scarce
lyI more rebedient could they have
been to the shouts of the assem-
bled multitude, while they hailed
the triumph Of the victorious gladia-
tors In the olden days. From the Col
isseuna, & passing under the arch of
Constantine at the head of Via Sacra,
you reach the dAppian Way, passing
out of the walls through the arch Of
Drusus and the Gate of st. Sebasti-
ano. This road, though narrow. is. as
far as the eye can follow it up the
Alban mountains. as straight as an
arrow would fly. Just then you have
passed the baths of Caracalla, the
most stupendous in extent of all the
ruins, You now have on your left the
Columbarium or tomb of Cecilia Met
ella, a massive circular structure,
resembling more a feudal fortress
than tomb; its shape is very much
like Hadrian's ,Mausoleum, now the
Fortress of Saint Angelo, only not so
large. From this on, you are sur
rounded by ill-shaped masses and re-
mains of masonry, said to have been
tombs. 5 The campagna here opens
out with all its vast and level expanse.
intersected only by the long, long
plying Rome with water, and which
now form such an appropriate orna-
scape. Not far off. is. the sacred
wood. Is ~ little, knoll ioof ground
thickly set with olives, making
complete grove, and the Fountain of
Egeria, where Numa came nightly to
consult with the Nymph- both pleas
ant spots to visit. In this same d.
rection, but out through the Gate of
St. Paul. sthe Pyramid of Gains Ces.
tins a tomb of over one hundred feet
in HIGHT and near hv, the two Protes.
tant 6emeteries the old ono contain-
inc the remains Of Mrs, Rrown;ng and
Keats the new one. what was left Of
Shellv also fonnd many mer;can
names engraved upon the tombs here.
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