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ch. vin.
THROUGH ITALY.
257
narrow channel which diminishes in height as it
advances* but in all places leaves room for the
purposes of repairing and cleansing.*
On the highest, that is, the southern bank of
the lake, Stood Alba Longa, a city known only
in Roman story, for not a vestige of it remains;
dignified while it stood by its contest with infant
Rome, and when it fell, by the short but elo-
quent description which Titus Livius gives of its
destruction^. Nothing can be more delightful
than the walks around the lake, sometimes ap-
proaching the edge of the steep banks and look-
ing down upon the glassy surface extended be-
low, and at other times traversing the thickets
and woods that rise all around, and refresh the
traveller as he passes under their vast contiguity
of shade. Another umbrageous alley, partly
through woods, leads to Marino, a very pretty
town : the approach to it with the rocky dell,
the fountain in the midst, the town on the emi-
* Vide Liv. L. v. c. 16. Cic. De Div. lib. i. 44. Vai.
Max. cap. vi. This work was finished in less than a year.
The Emperor Claudius began a similar emissarius to let out
the waters of the Lacus Fucinus, and employed in it thirty
thousand men for eleven years.
t Lib. i. 29,
VOL. II. S
THROUGH ITALY.
257
narrow channel which diminishes in height as it
advances* but in all places leaves room for the
purposes of repairing and cleansing.*
On the highest, that is, the southern bank of
the lake, Stood Alba Longa, a city known only
in Roman story, for not a vestige of it remains;
dignified while it stood by its contest with infant
Rome, and when it fell, by the short but elo-
quent description which Titus Livius gives of its
destruction^. Nothing can be more delightful
than the walks around the lake, sometimes ap-
proaching the edge of the steep banks and look-
ing down upon the glassy surface extended be-
low, and at other times traversing the thickets
and woods that rise all around, and refresh the
traveller as he passes under their vast contiguity
of shade. Another umbrageous alley, partly
through woods, leads to Marino, a very pretty
town : the approach to it with the rocky dell,
the fountain in the midst, the town on the emi-
* Vide Liv. L. v. c. 16. Cic. De Div. lib. i. 44. Vai.
Max. cap. vi. This work was finished in less than a year.
The Emperor Claudius began a similar emissarius to let out
the waters of the Lacus Fucinus, and employed in it thirty
thousand men for eleven years.
t Lib. i. 29,
VOL. II. S