The quantity of water furnished by this aqueduct is estimated at about 94,184 cubic metres in twenty-four hours.

Thus, from the three modern aqueducts not less than 180,500 cubic metres of water are daily introduced into Rome ; yet the want of cleanliness is remarkable in every street and corner of the city. The water is not conveyed by pipes into the upper floors of the houses, but into a common fountain in their courts. In order to raise it to these stories, a

strong iron wire is fixed with one end above the fountain, and another above the window a bucket is made to slide along this wire, having a rope attached to it by which it ;

is letdown into the fountain, and passed over a pully above the window the end of;

the rope is held by the person in the window, and when the bucket is filled, he draws the

rope, and it slides along the wire as a guide, until it arrives at the window, where it is disengaged by the attendant. But although in their houses the modem Romans profit little by their abounding supply of water, in their public fountains they excel all other cities. We shall be excused for quoting the fino account of them, given by Eustace in his classical tour.

FOUNTAINS. obelisks, we pass to the fountains, because they are generally employed in " From the

the decoration of the same squares, and sometimes united as in the Piazza Favona and St. John a Lateran, to set each other off to more advantage. Three only of the ancient