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kvelled his vengeance againfl the ponderous ram- 

 parts of a warlike city, bqt againft the pleafant 

 dwellings of an induftrious people. I obferved 

 even more than one PriilTian deeply affecfled at the 

 fight. I by no means felt, though a ftranger, that 

 refledion of felf-fecurity which arifes in us on 

 feeing a danger againft vvhiph we are flieîtered ; 

 but, on the contrary, a voice of affliftion thrilled 

 through my heart, faying to me, if this were thy 

 Country ! 



It is not fo with ruins which are the efFetfl of 

 time. Thefe give pleafure, by launching us into 

 infinity ; they carry us feveral ages back^ and in- 

 tereft us in proportion to their antiquity. This 

 is the reafon that the ruins of Italy affed us more 

 than thofe of our own country j the ruins of 

 Greece moie than thofe of Italy , and the ruins of 

 Ergypt more than thofe of Greece. The firft an- 

 tique monument which I had ever feen was in the 

 vicinity of Orange. It was a triumphal arch, which 

 Marins Cfiufed to be eredled, to compiemoTatc his 

 vidbory over the Cjrrjbri. |t ftands at a fmall dif- 

 îançe from the city, ip the midft of fields. It is 

 an oblong mafs, confifting of three arcades, fome- 

 what refembling the gate of 5t. Denis. On get- 

 ting near, I bepaifje all eye? to gaze at it. What! 

 e)f claimed I, ^ \yox\i of the îincient Romans I an4 

 iniagipatipii inftantly hurried me away to Rome, 



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