. Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. ion. I have at length gained some degree of composure, and have examineda few things more at leisure, but still without any order. That of placeseems to have no interest; that of antiquity, is too abstruse and cannot therefore, pretend to give you any regular and connected viewof Rome; nor can I take you with me from day to day, as I often runfrom one thing to another, and return again repeatedly to the principalobjects. I shall therefore pursue a plan which may have regularity enoughto unite the principal objects into grou
. Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. ion. I have at length gained some degree of composure, and have examineda few things more at leisure, but still without any order. That of placeseems to have no interest; that of antiquity, is too abstruse and cannot therefore, pretend to give you any regular and connected viewof Rome; nor can I take you with me from day to day, as I often runfrom one thing to another, and return again repeatedly to the principalobjects. I shall therefore pursue a plan which may have regularity enoughto unite the principal objects into groups, whose individuals may reflectsome light upon each other; without attempting any more general ar-rangement : and leave something both of the composition of the groups,and of the order in which I speak of them, to that in which I have seenthem. There are so many objects of high interest in Rome, that a strangerhardly knows to which first to turn himself; but no one will long post-pone a visit to the Forum, now called the Campo Vaccino, ^. e. the Cattle. JUPITER TONANS. 331 Field; not the market, but the place where the long horned oxen, whichhave drawn the carts of the country people to Rome, wait till their mas-ters are ready to go back again. This piece of ground does not preciselycorrespond with that of the old Forum Romanum, but it contains nearlythe whole of it, and might without any impropriety be called by the samename. To reach this I crossed the Capitoline hill, whose modern build-ings I shall leave for a future opportunity, and passing under the porticosof Michael Angelo, came out above the Temple of Concord. On the leftare the foundations, and great fragments of the ancient buildings of theCapitol. The latter are principally seen within the prisons, at the back ofthe present senate-house ; the former consist of great blocks of peperino,and seem to form the face of the hill. Above this was anciently the Tabu-larium, or record-office, the front of which consisted of
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