They then roll down the side of the mountain, turn several mills as they descend, and supply numberless reservoirs in the plain along the sides of the river, and even beyond it, in the Campus Martius. The lofty situation of this fountain, renders it a conspicuous object to all the opposite hills. The trees that line its sides, and wave to the eye through its arches, shed an unusual beauty around it and the immense basin which it replenishes, ;

gives it the appearance, riot of the contrivance of human ingenuity, but almost the creation of enchantment. " In the Piazza di Trevi, (in Triviis) on a rough and broken rock, rises a palace, adorned with Corinthian pilasters, and supported in the centre by Corinthian pillars. It is ornamented with statues, representing the salubrity and fertilizing powers of the waters the beneficent Naiad herself, holds a conspicuous place among them, and seems ;

to behold with complacency, the profusion of her springs. In the middle of the edifice, between the columns, under a rich arch, stands Neptune on his car, in a majestic attitude, as if commanding the rocks to open before, and the waters to swell around, him. Two seahorses, conducted by two tritoris, drag the chariot of the god, and emerging from the caverns of the rock, shake the brine from their manes while the obedient waves burst ;

forth in torrents from all sides, roar down the clefts of the crag, and form a sea around its base. In the heats of summer, they overflow their usual limits, fill the whole marble concavity round the fountain, and rise to a level with the square, where, after sunset, the inhabitants of the neighboring streets assemble, to enjoy the united freshness of the waters and of the evening. " Such is the celebrated Fontana di Trivi, the noblest work of the kind in Rome? and probably the most magnificent fountain in the world.