230 
week the inside of St. Peter’s was lighted only by a 
huge cross of copper, studded on both sides with 
lamps, and hung in the middle of the church, which 
was quite a promenade, like Ranelagh. We leave 
Rome in twelve days for Loretto, Bologna, Venice, 
and Milan. 
Your dutiful Son, 
J. E. Smiru. 
J. E. Smith to his Father. 
Honoured Sir, Rome, April 24, 1787. 
We could not get off this morning, but shall 
leave Rome this afternoon or tomorrow. I have 
got a letter from Broussonet of Paris, informing 
me that | am chosen a member of their Royal Agri- 
cultural Society. We have been busily employed 
in seeing all we could, but must still leave some 
things undone. The church of St. Paul without- 
the-walls pleased me very much, on account of its 
great number of noble antique pillars of marble, 
forty of which came from Adrian’s tomb, and are 
most of them of a single block of Parian marble 
near twenty-five feet high. A few days ago a very 
elegant new monument was opened in the church 
of the Twelve Apostles, for the late Pope Ganganelli; 
tis one of the finest I ever saw: ’tis of the usual 
form ; a large base, on which is a sarcophagus, 
at one end of which is a figure of Humility, andat 
the other Temperance, both quite in the antique 
style, and far superior to Bernini’s heavy works. 
