Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-01
LETTERS FROM ITALY.
Pontifical Mass in st. Peters Carnival
Week Christian Relics In Rome.
ROME Feb 6, 1894

III the surrounding streets. rave Tue space |
with small square blocks of dark gray lava. |
Encircle it with two huge semi-circular |
colonnades seventy feet high containing |
about 3O0--to be exact, 2S4-great Doric |
columns OF yelowish stone. Place upon the |
curved entableture supported by these about |
200 colossal statues-wel, not quite 200, |
but, if YOU still insist cXactness, l62- |
| and if you stop to think you will see that |
only 1852 great statues may make something
of show against the blue sky. In the
centre of the area rising into the air as high |
| as the gilt final on the college belfry, place
a great obelisk-a block of red granite
brought from Egypt by a Roman emperor,
on which the eyes of the enslaved Hebrews
| often rested, before they were led by Moses
| out of bondage. Put on each side of the
obelisk great fountain throwing copious
| jets of water 40 feet into the air, which fall
in showers of white. flashing spray. Cover
the other half of the green with great
temple, 800 feet wide and 700 feet long.
| Place on its vast roof a mighty dome, lifted
| toward the clouds four or five times as high
Us the College befry. Put in the piazza in
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