Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the RevWilliam Morley Punshon . ost beauty unclothed; the other,dressed in the richest attire, with the sunshine ofheaven resting on her pure and serene brow. There isno end to picture galleries and visiting studios inRome. I drove through the Ghetto, the Jews quarter,its narrow streets reeking with filth, where amidsqualor and degradation is pointed out the old housein which St. Paul lived and taught. The ride along the Appian Way to the Catacombs,and on to the tomb of Cecilia Metella,
Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the RevWilliam Morley Punshon . ost beauty unclothed; the other,dressed in the richest attire, with the sunshine ofheaven resting on her pure and serene brow. There isno end to picture galleries and visiting studios inRome. I drove through the Ghetto, the Jews quarter,its narrow streets reeking with filth, where amidsqualor and degradation is pointed out the old housein which St. Paul lived and taught. The ride along the Appian Way to the Catacombs,and on to the tomb of Cecilia Metella, is a never-to-be-forgotten one. Passing out of the Gate of we reach the Arch of Drusus, a monumentof Augustan architecture, made of huge masses ofstones, with but very little sculpture. All along the Sketches of Travel. 407 way are tombs and Columbaria. A Columhariuyn is atomb containing a number of cinerary urns, in semi-circular niches, like pigeon-holes, whence the halted at the Church of Dominie Quo Vadis, andsaw a copy of the mythical footprint which Christ issaid to have left here on the marble. This is the. Tombs on the Appian Way. legend:—As St. Peter, on the persecution which arosefrom the accusation that the Christians had set fire toRome, was fleeing for his life, he met the Master,travelling toward the city, and enquired of him, Lord,where goest thou ? The Saviour replied with a gentlereproach, I go to Rome, to be crucified a second St. Peter, ashamed of his cowardly weak- 4o8 Toward the Sunrise ; or, ness, and filled with trembling and joy, returned and boldly met the martyrs death. Not far from this church are the Catacombs of St. Calixtus. The entrance to the — Catacombs is from an open field, in which the work of excavation is still going on. Anywhere over this invisible city, a few yards under the soil, you come upon ruins, or openings down into this great city of the dead. We light ourcandles, and fol-lowing the guidedes
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