CLUSIUM. 451

way out again. Above this base stood five pyra-
mids, one in the centre and four at the angles, each
of them seventy-five feet in circumference at the
base, and a hundred and fifty feet high, tapering to
the top so as to be covered by a cupola of bronze.
From this there hung by chains a peal of bells,
which, when agitated by the wind, sounded to a great
distance. Above this cupola rose four other pyra-
mids, each a hundred feet high, and above these
again, another story of five pyramids, which towered
to a height so marvellous and improbable, that
Varro hesitates to affirm their altitude." And in
this he was wise, for he had-already said more upon
the subject than was credible. However, any one
who has seen the tomb of Aruns, the son of Por-
senna, near the gate of Albano, will be struck with
the similarity of style, which, comparing small things
with great, existed between the monuments of father
and son. Those who have never been in Italy may
like to know that this tomb of Aruns is said to have
been built by Porsenna for the young prince who
fell here in battle with the Latinsandwith the Greeks
from Cuma, and it is certainly the work of Etruscan
masons. Five pyramids rise from a base of fifty-
five square feet, and the centre one contains a small
chamber, in which was found, about fifty years since, an
urn full of ashes. Some antiquaries have thought that
they might possibly be the ashes of Pompey, brought
from Africa by Cornelia, and magnificently interred
at Albano; but the first authorities upon these
points at Rome say that this tomb is of much older
date. I think it was covered up with earth till