Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . .^V/Avy. 1 P/an tf<m& fuarfrr tf<t/?„ ?w/?//////<wf/< al ff/wr. VERONA. amphitheatre is computed to have room to contain upwards ofthree and twenty thoufand fpedtators to fit commodioufiy up-on the feats ; that at Rome, eighty-five thoufand : only twoand forty ranks of feats, according to Carottis computation,(who is quoted as a meafurer and computer, both by Panviniand Torelli) would contain three and twenty thoufand a hundredand eighty-four perfons, allowing a fo
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . .^V/Avy. 1 P/an tf<m& fuarfrr tf<t/?„ ?w/?//////<wf/< al ff/wr. VERONA. amphitheatre is computed to have room to contain upwards ofthree and twenty thoufand fpedtators to fit commodioufiy up-on the feats ; that at Rome, eighty-five thoufand : only twoand forty ranks of feats, according to Carottis computation,(who is quoted as a meafurer and computer, both by Panviniand Torelli) would contain three and twenty thoufand a hundredand eighty-four perfons, allowing a foot and a half to each per-fon. The foot of Verona is above an inch longer than the middle of the area is a deep hole, like a little well,where they told me wasantiently fixed a great pole, or maft, tofupport the middle of the canvafs or filk covering, which wasextended all over the top of the amphitheatre, to defend thepeople from the fun-beams. There went three galleries orcorridores, round the area of the amphitheatre; one is de-frayed by the ruin of the outward fhell, which formed one fideof it: the
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