Ninfa Infida. That title would have been more just, at least I am sure I have found them so. The same.

When Henry the Fourth of France was reconciled to the church of Rome, it was expected that he should give some remarkable testimonial of his sincerity in returning to the true faith. He accordingly ordered a cross to be erected at Rome, near the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, with this inscription, In hoc signo vinces, on the principal part of it. This passed at first as very catholic, till it was observed that the part in which the inscription is put is shaped in the form of a cannon, and that he had really attributed only to his artillery what they had taken to be addressed to Heaven. -Ficoroni, (at Rome.)

You may know that Hercules to be Roman, by its being so much overwrought; the muscles look like lumps of flesh upon it. The Greek artists were more expressive, without taking so much pains to express.-The same, (at the Palazzo Lancilotti at Rome.)

The most promising of Carlo Marat's scholars was one Beretoni. He died when he was but two-and-thirty, and not without suspicion of foul play from his master, who could not bear to have one of his scholars excel himself. That he evidently did so may be seen, by comparing both their works in the Palazzo Altieri.-The same.

The resting Venus, at the Barberini Palace, is the finest of all the old paintings in Rome. Carlo Marat supplied part of the Cupids that attend her, but the Venus herself, they say, was not at all retouched.— The same.

Dominiquin is in as high esteem now as almost any of the modern painters at Rome. When you see any works of his and Guido's together, how much superior does he appear! Guido is often more showy, but Dominiquin has more spirit, as well as more correctness.-The same. (Piu spirituoso, was his word.)

This Leda (at the Palazza Colonna) is said to be Corregio's, but there is not any

one undoubted picture of that great master in all Rome.-The same.

I measured the Tarpeian Rock, when the Duke of Beaufort was here, and found it to be eighty palms high, which just answers to sixty feet English. It goes down perpendicular, as you see; and so was easily measured. I took only the height of the rock itself, exclusive of the building that has been added upon it— The same.

The front pillars of the Temple of Concord, that of Antonine and Faustina, and those of the Rotunda, are the most perfect of any in Rome; and in each of them the opening between the two middle pillars is larger than the openings between the side ones. The difference is not enough to be observed by a common eye, and in some of them not enough to be seen of it till you have measured them. By this means the entrance had a freer and nobler air, without breaking the regularity or harmony of the building.-Mr. Phillips.

Trajan's Column is composed of twenty

four stones only, cut within for the staircase. It is 118 Roman feet high; just the height of what was taken from the hill to make room for Trajan's Forum, which was one of the most magnificent things in Rome. This column stood in the midst of it, and on that was his statue, and (they say) his ashes in an urn.-Ficoroni.

The four most celebrated works of the modern sculptors at Rome are Michael Angelo's Moses, Algari's story of Attila, Fiamingo's Susanna, and Bernini's Bribiana.-The same.

What they point out as the four most celebrated pictures are Raffaelle's Transfiguration, Volterra's Descent from the Cross, Dominichin's Saint Jerome, and Andrea Sacchi's Romualdo.-The same.

There are 10,600 pieces of ancient sculpture, of one sort or other (relievos, statues, and busts), now in Rome; and 6,300 ancient columns of marble. What multitudes of the latter sort have there been sawed out for tables and wainscoting chapels, or mixed up with walls and other

wise destroyed! And what multitudes may there yet lie undiscovered under ground? When we think of this altogether, it may give one some faint idea of the vast magnificence of Rome in all its glory.The same.

Chi Hoang Ti, Emperor of China, began his reign 246 years before the birth of our Saviour. It was he who burned all their books, except such as treated of physic or judicial astrology, in the 34th year of his reign.

Their philosophers had written against the tyrant, and argued against him and his vices from their sacred books. He was by their laws the grand interpreter of those books; and on that pretext sent out an order to them to bring in all their books to his palace, by a time named. They suspected his design, and several of them concealed the copies in their hands. There were four hundred and seventy philosophers, who were buried alive by his order, on that account. They talk of this prince to this day in China, as we Europeans do

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