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Fredericton, New Brunswick, the nome of beautiful street trees. 



the Alps this great log must have been 

 slid and dragged to the Lake of Lug- 

 ano, or to a neighboring lake, and 

 thence painstakingly through a narrow 

 stream which is the outlet, to the Po 

 River, where it could be loaded u])on 

 a ship of sufficient size to transport 

 it. Perhaps it was later transferred 

 to a larger vessel before the long and 

 rough voyage down the Adriatic, 

 around the end of Italy, and up the 

 west coast to Ostia, at the mouth of 

 the Tiber; from which it had still to 

 be carried upstream the few remain- 

 ing miles to Rome. 



Another beam, one hundred Roman 

 feet long and eighteen inches square, 

 is mentioned by Pliny as having been 

 brought to Rome in the time of the 

 Emperor Augustus (who ruled M H. 

 C. to 14 A. D.), by his minister .Vgrip- 

 pa. for the construction of the building 

 where the Romans cast their votes. 

 It proved to be too large to use. and 



was still there, viewed as a curiosity, 

 in Pliny's time, over half a century 

 later. 



Then there was the mast of the 

 great ship which brought from Egypt 

 the obelisk which the Emperor Cali- 

 gula (37-41 A. D.) set up in the Cir- 

 cus on the X'atican Hill : this same 

 obelisk, by the way. now stands in 

 front of the great Basilica of St. Pet- 

 er's, not far from the spot where it 

 was first erected in Rome. But the 

 ship that brought it was so large that 

 it took up the greater part of one side 

 of the harbor at Ostia. and the mast 

 was so huge that it took four men 

 with outstretched arms to girdle it. 

 Such masts as these were said to cost 

 80,000 R(^man sesterces, which would 

 be (ner $4,000 in our money : and the 

 general belief is, that money bought 

 from ten til twenty times as much in 

 those days as it iloes now. No I as 

 it (lid fifteen years ago, which is quite 

 another thiiii:. 



