lection to enrich the Gallery of Paris. The most remarkable of them were those of the goddess Juno, and of the Emperor Nerva.

The pavement in black and white mosaic representing Medusa's head, with a border of Sea Monsters, was found at Otricoli: and in the midst, upon a bronze stand, four feet high, is a bason of porphyry, fifteen feet diameter.

From this Imperial Hall you pass into the Chamber, in the shape of a Greek cross, by a bronze door, the jambs of which are of red granite, and they are supported by Egyptian Caryatides of the same imperishable material, twelve feet in height. They stand upon pedestals, and bear vases upon their heads, or ra

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ther upon an entablature, the frieze of which is an Antique Bas Relief, representing a Combat of Lions and Gladiators.

The most remarkable Objects in this Room are two prodigious blocks of porphyry, embossed with Figures, the heads of which are in full relief. One of them was brought from the ancient Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of St. Constantia, where it contained the ashes of the Daughter of Constantine. The other was found among the ruins of the tower called Pignatara, a few miles without the gates of Rome, and is supposed to have been the tomb of St. Helena, the Mother of the first Christian Emperor

The pavement is a mosaic that was found at Tusculum.

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This Apartment opens into the Great Stair-case. It is of Carrara marble, divided into three flights. One of them descends to the Library, the Garden, &c. and the other two lead to the Upper Galleries. It is decorated with twenty columns of granite, beside Statues, Vases, &c.

Ascending the marble steps you enter a long Gallery divided into six Apartments, by as many arches supported by Ionic columns. Each of them is lined with elegant Vases, Tripods, Candelabra, Demi-Columns, and Egyptian Idols of the rarest marbles.

But before you advance, an iron gate invites you to peep into a lesser Rotunda, still more richly decorated than the for

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mer and ennobled by a view of the Dome of St. Peter's, which is seen at a distance, through one of the windows. In the middle of the apartment is an Antique car, with two horses, driven by a Victor at the Olympic Games.

Passing through the six Divisions of the Gallery of Vases with a cursory glance at the innumerable objects they contain, you enter the Picture Gallery of the Belvidere, of which I shall say nothing, as every thing particularly valuable has been selected by the French.

Returning to the Great Stair-case you may descend into the Garden, if you choose but it contains nothing remarkable to a French, or an English, Traveller, excepting the Pedestal of the Column

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of Antoninus Pius, which was raised to his memory by his adopted Sons, Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Verus.

It is a single Block of white marble, twelve or fourteen feet square, ornamented with superb Bas Reliefs. One of them represents the apotheosis of Antoninus and Faustina, with whom a powerful Angel ascends to Heaven. Below this Groupe, on one side is a Roma Triumphans, on the other a Figure of Eternity-embracing an obelisk.