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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...on the Aventine. Villa Torlonia, now Manescotti, on the Janiculum.... Top of Villa on Monte Mario. Santa Maria Maggiore.. Quirinal Palace Villa Medici Trinita. dei Monti Feet In. Summit of the Colosseum..219 0 St. Peter's 497 5 The last observation of the latitude of St. Peter's, byCalandrelli, gives 41 54'; 8 5'. As books without number exist, descriptive of ancient and modern Rome; the object of this article has rather been directed to the consideration of circumstances which may not so frequently meet the eye of the general reader. Ronciglione. A town of 3,357 inhabitants, between Monte Rosi and Viterbo, and the fourth post from Rome, on the road to Florence, by Viterbo. From its connexion with the iron trade of the isle of Elba, the town is in a flourishing condition. The iron, having been smelted at Bracciano, is brought in carts drawn by oxen through Oriolo to Ronciglione, and is thence conveyed to Rome. Ronciglione is situated on the first rise of the country toward the Mons Ciminius. That portion of the town which is seated upon the rock, See Addenda. is called Ronciglione Vecchio. The precipices are of so friable a texture, that large fragments have sometimes fallen, and precipitated a dwelling into the glen below. According to the Peutingerian Tables, the first station beyond Sutrium, on the Via Cassia, was the Vico Matrini; it was distant from Sutrium six miles, and, from the present name of the Lacus Ciminius, (Lago di Vico, ) may be supposed to have stood upon the banks of the lake. A deep rocky glen, in the sides of which are some sepulchral chambers, seems to prove that there was an Etruscan population here. The Mons Ciminius, with the great Forest, (Ciminiae Silvae, or Ciminii saltus, ) which Livy says was at one period...

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