Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . irrigation and trafficcanals kept in good order; with its monuments infar better preservation than now — the pyramids, forexample, being still coated with their smooth marblesides, and not to be mounted by the presentsteps, from which the marble has been torn; withits rich corn-lands, its convict mines and quarries,the Siberia of antiquity; with its string of townsalong the Nile and its seven or eight millionsof inhabitants — mostly speaking Coptic — and fullof strange superstitions and peculiar worship ofanimals. Coming westward we reach the prospe
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . irrigation and trafficcanals kept in good order; with its monuments infar better preservation than now — the pyramids, forexample, being still coated with their smooth marblesides, and not to be mounted by the presentsteps, from which the marble has been torn; withits rich corn-lands, its convict mines and quarries,the Siberia of antiquity; with its string of townsalong the Nile and its seven or eight millionsof inhabitants — mostly speaking Coptic — and fullof strange superstitions and peculiar worship ofanimals. Coming westward we reach the prosperous Cyrene,and then, by the rather out-of-the-world Bight of Tripoli,Africa proper, where onceruled mighty Carthage, thecolony of Tyre, and wherethe Phoenician or Puniclanguage still survivedamong the population ofmixed Phoenicians andBerbers. Here, too, arewide and luxuriant stretchesof corn-land, upon whichRome depends only next, if next, to those of Alex- Fig. S. —Emblem of Antioch. andria. Further west are the Berber tribes of. 46 LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD ch.^. Mauretania, governed by Rome but hardly yetfully assimilated into the Roman system. In the Mediterranean Sea lie Crete, a place whichhad now become of little importance; Sicily, as muchGreek as Roman, fertile in crops and possessed of manya splendid Greek temple and theatre; Sardinia, anunhealthy island infested by banditti, and employed
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