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ere so purposes. One of the rooms is in excellent preserva- and important one. The metropolis of the ancient extensive that for five centuries the villagers burned tion. It is 86 feet long by 28 feet wide, with six rows of world at one time numbered about 1,000,000 inhabi- marble for lime without… … square or lozenge- of the delta has ENTRANCE TO WAREHOUSES IN OSTIA, shaped end, and left Ostia wiles are fitted very inland. The as- tronomer, Padre Secchi, and Prof. Lanciani have de- Medici they found the villagers occupied with burning closely, one to the other. These little blocks are about an…

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