Wanderings in the Roman campagna . o Promis, Le antirliita di Aosta, Turin, 18G2; de Loges, Essaihistoriquc sur le Mont SI. Bernard, 1789: i4iiber, La rallee dAostc, Paris,1800; Castelfranco, N^otizic degli scan, a. 1891, p. 75; von Duhn, MemorieAccad. di Torino, a. 1891, vol. xli, p. 386; de la Blancliere, Melintqes deIEcolc Francaise de Rome, a. 1887, vol. vii, p. 244; de Saulcy,/?fr»f arrheol.,nouvelle serie, vol. iii, p. 454; Desjardins. Gaule romaine, vol. i, p. 70;Ferrero, Notizie degli sea Ii, 1883-1904; Corpus Inscript. Lat., vol. v, 32 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA mum width
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . o Promis, Le antirliita di Aosta, Turin, 18G2; de Loges, Essaihistoriquc sur le Mont SI. Bernard, 1789: i4iiber, La rallee dAostc, Paris,1800; Castelfranco, N^otizic degli scan, a. 1891, p. 75; von Duhn, MemorieAccad. di Torino, a. 1891, vol. xli, p. 386; de la Blancliere, Melintqes deIEcolc Francaise de Rome, a. 1887, vol. vii, p. 244; de Saulcy,/?fr»f arrheol.,nouvelle serie, vol. iii, p. 454; Desjardins. Gaule romaine, vol. i, p. 70;Ferrero, Notizie degli sea Ii, 1883-1904; Corpus Inscript. Lat., vol. v, 32 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA mum width of eleven feet six inches. The Roman hospice(Martsio in .suinnio Poenino) stood a quarter of a mile tothe south of the present one, and comprised a templeto the god of the mountain, a hospice for travellers,stables and watering-troughs, and storehouses for fueland provisions. The location of the temple of Jujjiter Poeninus (fromthe Celtic pen or hen, summit), facing almost duenorth, answers ])recisely to the precept of Vitruvius. The srite by which the Pceiiine Pass roail left Aosta (iv, 5), When a house of the gods is raised on a publicroad, place it so that travellers may see their imao-es andpay homage to them in going by. The mansio or hospice was likewise built of stone,with an elaborate system of hypocausts and flues forthe distribution of heat through the guest-rooms. The THE LAND OF SATURN 33 roof, made of tiles from the limekilns of the Val d Aosta,had projecting eaves in the old Swiss style. From the study of the fifty votive brass tablets, of thefive hundred Gaulish coins, of the seven hundred Romanmedals, of the marks and stann>s of votive pottery andutensils discovered in the excavations, and exhibitednow in the museum of the worthy followers of St. Ber-nard de Menthon, archseologists have been led to adoptthe following conclusions. The ]:)ass was but little used in prehistoric ages, onlya few objects of the age of bronze having been found atLyddes in the Val
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