Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . The middle one is the principal ftreet of Rome, which theycall the Corfo, the place where the quality take the frefco ofthe evening in their coaches. The obelifk in this piazza is* Vide p. 49. of granite*, (as are all the reft erected in feveral parts ofRome) a mo ft hard ftone, of a fomewhat coarfe grain, allin-fcribed with hieroglyphicks: it was firft placd in the CircusMaximus, and dedicated by Auguftus Caefar to the fun, as ap-pears by one of the infcriptions on the bafis : it was fix

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Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . The middle one is the principal ftreet of Rome, which theycall the Corfo, the place where the quality take the frefco ofthe evening in their coaches. The obelifk in this piazza is* Vide p. 49. of granite*, (as are all the reft erected in feveral parts ofRome) a mo ft hard ftone, of a fomewhat coarfe grain, allin-fcribed with hieroglyphicks: it was firft placd in the CircusMaximus, and dedicated by Auguftus Caefar to the fun, as ap-pears by one of the infcriptions on the bafis : it was fixd whereit is by Sixtus Qajntus, and dedicated to the Crofs, with thisfurther infcription alluding to the former: Ante facram illiuscedent augujiior Iceiiorque fur go, cujus ex utero virginali , fol jujiitia exortus eft. I rife more majeftiek and more joyful before her holy temple %, out of whofe virgin- womb the Sun of Righteoufnefs arofe, in the reign of Au- guilus Csefar. The ftreets of Rome are many of them exactly ftrait, efpe-cially thofe which were regulated by Sixtus V. and, amongt

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