. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. Vv. 318 RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGNA. is now dried up. Near by a sulphurous odour indicates tlie proxim-ity of tlie Albul^, batlis often frequented in ancient cliannel, constructed liy Cardinal Este, draws off tlie water fromthese suljihvirous lakes to the Tiber. The bath-house was erected iu1880, and the water is beneficial for skin diseases. In the vicinity are the quarries of travertine—so called from theBtone taking the ancient name Tilmr
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. Vv. 318 RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGNA. is now dried up. Near by a sulphurous odour indicates tlie proxim-ity of tlie Albul^, batlis often frequented in ancient cliannel, constructed liy Cardinal Este, draws off tlie water fromthese suljihvirous lakes to the Tiber. The bath-house was erected iu1880, and the water is beneficial for skin diseases. In the vicinity are the quarries of travertine—so called from theBtone taking the ancient name Tilmrtians—which have yielded thematerials for building both ancient and modern Rome, the Colosseum,and S. Petei-s. Three miles from Timli ve crnxs the picturesque PONTE LUCANO, which spans the Anio. Near by is the solid and magnificent Tombof the Plautii, similar to that of Cecilia Metella. The ujjjier parthas been repaired in medieval times, that it might serve as a , 1 , by M. Plautius Silvanus for himself, Lartia his wife,and Urgularicus his child. The inscrijition tells us that one of hisdescendants served in Britain,
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