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fate has awaited “ Father Tiber ;” at the spot where that river 
takes its rise in the Appenine Hills, at a point where they 
approach nearest to the Adriatic Sea, in Mount Fumajolo, situated 
nearly mid-way between Florence and Urbino, no memorials, as far 
as I can ascertain, have been discovered, and I have made inquiry 
in vain for any such; but at the end of this paper is given the 
inscription on a votive altar preserved at Rome, but not found 
at the source. The source of the Tiber is in a thick Beech 
Forest, and the little stream tumbles from a ledge of splintered 
limestone rock, and soon splits into many different rills. 
One who has visited the spot thus records his feelings. + 
“ My mind was filled with emotion, it was like being present 
at the birth of one who should alter and control the destinies of 
the world. The whole history and associations of the stream arose 
within me with a crushing sensation of overpowering vastness, 
from the first settlement founded on its banks, through the 
grandeur of the lordly Rome of Augustus, to the modern eccle- 
siastical city. I thought of the many lives that had been lived out 
on its banks, and the many battles that had been fought there. 
I thought of the lands it passed through, the low-lying marshes 
of Ostia, the solemn undulating Campagna, the sunny mountains 
and valleys of Umbria, the spreading fields of corn, vine, and 
olive, the towering cities, the quiet homesteads, the rocky nooks 
: and fastnesses in its course, and the mighty influence the 
denizens of its shores had had on the history of mankind and its 
civilization: all these were brought before me.” And surely 
_ some such feelings must awaken in the minds of Englishmen in 
contemplating the sources of the Thames, a river which probably 
_ has, and is still exercising, if not as great, yet perhaps a more 
_ beneficent and beneficial influence upon mankind, not extending 
over one world alone like the Roman, but penetrating into 
lands unknown to the Romans. 
* The Pilgrimage of the Tiber, by William Davies. 
