The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 293
and in some instances in the midst ofruins, modern buildings were standing; and here and there were mod-ern buildings in course of construction. Ancient Rome and modernRome were more closely related than our friends had expected to findthem, and not infrequently the new was mingled with the old. A… … WALLS OF ROME THE OSTIAN GATE. SOMETHING ABOUT ANCIENT ROME. 273 modern builders. A considerable portion of the Colosseum was thusused, and the same may be said of many of the temples, palaces, andother buildings. Mrs. Bassett asked how it happened that this wasdone, and wondered that anybody…
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