" If during the most distinguished eras of the Roman state, the Aqueducts conduced to the luxurious enjoyments of the wealthy and powerful, yet in modern times, the residents of Rome have also found them particularly advantageous, by their furnishing occasions for the cultivation of those elegant arts, which, in a peculiar manner, call forth the energies of genius, and the exercise of refined taste, in realizing and decorating her productions, dualities of this kind appear conspicuous in several of the numerous fountains which adorn that celebrated city ; and the most intellectual and accomplished professors of sculpture and architecture, have happily united beauty and grandeur in the construction of many such admirable edifices. These structures are also characterized by great diversity of design, as well as skilful execution ; hence, a concise description of several of them may be interesting."

" The largest structure of this kind in Rome, is that denominated the Pauline Fountain, which was built by order of Pope Paul V., with the materials of Nerva's Forum. This spacious edifice is situate on the highest part of the

Janiculum hill, and Dominica Fontana, and Carlo Mederno, furnished the designs for its construction. The front is

adorned with six Ionic columns of red granite, on which an attic has a tablet containing an inscription with the pontiff's

arms placed above it. Between the columns the spaces are open, and from these arcades the currents of water flow with a loud noise, and in great abundance. The apertures on the sides are smaller than the others, and in each of those is