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CLASSICAL TOUR
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the same circumference. Within this circum-
ference, “ Modern Rome” lies extended prin-
cipally on the plain, and scattered thinly over
the hills, bordered by villas, gardens, and vine-
yards. Its population amounted to one hundred
and eighty, or perhaps two hundred thousand
souls previous to the French invasion, which by
empoverishing the country, and severing from
the capital one of its richest provinces, is said to
have diminished the number of inhabitants by
twenty, or even thirty thousand. The streets
are well built and well paved, narrower in gene-
ral than those in London, and wider than those
in Paris’; but (as the houses are not too high)
they are light and airy, often very long and
straight, and not unfrequently terminated by an
obelisk, a fountain, or a church. Such are the
three streets which diverge from the Porta, or
rather Piazza del Popvlo j the Corso, anciently
the Via Lata terminating at the foot of the
Capitol; the Strada del Babuino, ending in the
Piazza de Espagna, and the Strada de Ripetta,
anciently the Via Populi, leading to the Tiber;
not to speak of the Strada Giulia, Strada della
Longara, and many others.
The houses are of stone but plastered as at
Vienna, Berlin, and other transalpine cities ; the
plaster, or stucco, is extremely hard, and in a
Ch. L
g
the same circumference. Within this circum-
ference, “ Modern Rome” lies extended prin-
cipally on the plain, and scattered thinly over
the hills, bordered by villas, gardens, and vine-
yards. Its population amounted to one hundred
and eighty, or perhaps two hundred thousand
souls previous to the French invasion, which by
empoverishing the country, and severing from
the capital one of its richest provinces, is said to
have diminished the number of inhabitants by
twenty, or even thirty thousand. The streets
are well built and well paved, narrower in gene-
ral than those in London, and wider than those
in Paris’; but (as the houses are not too high)
they are light and airy, often very long and
straight, and not unfrequently terminated by an
obelisk, a fountain, or a church. Such are the
three streets which diverge from the Porta, or
rather Piazza del Popvlo j the Corso, anciently
the Via Lata terminating at the foot of the
Capitol; the Strada del Babuino, ending in the
Piazza de Espagna, and the Strada de Ripetta,
anciently the Via Populi, leading to the Tiber;
not to speak of the Strada Giulia, Strada della
Longara, and many others.
The houses are of stone but plastered as at
Vienna, Berlin, and other transalpine cities ; the
plaster, or stucco, is extremely hard, and in a