Illustrated Home book of the Worlds Great Nations Being a Geographical Histor
Illustrated Home book of the Worlds Great Nations Being a Geographical Histor
Thomas Howell
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134 THE WOBLDS GREAT NATIONS. ST. RETEii'i cirjKcu, i;oaE. utensils and i n s t r u- ments of -worship ap- pertaining to the sacrificial rites ami ceremonies of the Jews, and other spoils of the Temple of Jerusalem, of which descriptions are given in the Book of Holy Writ. , . A part of the east- em side of the structure having been destroyed in the lapse of ages, it was restored during the pontificate of Pius VII. , and the whole struc- ture is now presented to view in its original proportions.... Beyond the Arch of Titus, at less than a furlong's distance, rise the mighty ruins of the Colosseum, or Flavian Amphitheatre. It was commenced by V e s- pasian on the site of an artificial lake con- structed by Nero, and it was afterward con- tinued by Titus, and finished by Domitian. It is of an oval form, and when complete was able to contain eighty, peven thousand spectators. "I frequently visited these ruins, " says an THB PAPAL TIARA AND KBTS. American gentleman, "but on two occasions the difference and contrasts of my vi3itsjvere so great, that I should like to describe them.
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