Of the Eaftern Province. 



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AID ITI VIR PR 



RVSICADE BIS 



PONTIFEX 



PERFECIT. 



The fide Ports of the principal Gate of the City, which are of r>^^ Gates. 

 a beautiful reddifli Stone not inferiour to Marble , are very 

 neatly moulded and pannalled. An Altar of pure white Mar- 

 ble maketh Part of a neighbouring Wall ; and the Side of It 

 in View, prefents us with a well fhaped Simpulum in a bold 

 Relief. The Gate towards the S. E. is in the fame Fafliion and 

 Defign, though much fmaller : and lyeth open to the Bridge 

 that I have mentioned to have been built over This Part of the 

 Valley. 



The Bridge was a Mafter piece in It's Kind , having had The Bridge. 

 the Gallery and the Columns of the Arches adorned with Cor- 

 niflies and Feftoons, Ox Heads and Garlands. The Key- 

 Stones likewife of the Arches are charged with Caducei and 

 other Figures. Betwixt the two principal Arches, we fee, in 

 a ftrong Relief well executed, the Figure of a Lady tread- 

 ing upon two Elephants, with a large Efcallop Shell for Her 

 Canopy. The Elephants, having their Faces turned towards 

 each other, twift their Trunks together ; and the Lady, who 

 appears dreffed in Her Hair, with a clofe bodied Garment like 

 the riding Habit of our Times, raifeth up Her Petticoats with 

 Her right Hand , and looks fcornfully upon the City. This 

 Group , in any other Situation , might be fuppofed to belong 

 to fome Fountain : it being well known, that They were fome- 

 times laid out in fuch ludicrous and wanton Defigns. Upon a 

 Stone, in the River below It, I traced out the following Words. 



CAI. IVLI 

 SIGNINARI 



Below the Bridge, the Rummel begins to turn to the North- The juurra- 



1 T r" y-v r"iv/r"1*l «eous Pajfnge 



ward ; where It runs, for near a Quarter or a Mile m that «/ the Rum- 

 Diredion, through a rocky fubterraneous PafTage, defignedly 

 laid open in feveral Places, for the greater Conveniency of 

 drawing up the Water, or cleanfing the Channel. According 



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