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

placed a dragon spouting water into the spacious magnificent marble basin below. This fountain is furnished with water by the Aqueduct called Aqua Paolo ; and it runs from the basin, in a very large stream into several canals, whence it is employed to work various corn, paper, and other mills, as well as to supply fountains and fish-ponds in the gardens and palaces of the opulent."

" Near to the baths of Dioclesian, and in the square of the Termini, stands the fountain of the Aqua Felice. The edifice is not only elegant but fanciful, and it has three arcades ornamented with four Ionic columns of granite. The middle arcade has a colossal statue of Moses, causing the water to issue from the rock ; and at the sides are two basso relievos, one representing Aaron leading the Israelites to the

miraculous spring, and the other Gideon selecting the soldiers to enlarge the passage for the water, which flows in

great abundance through three apertures into marble basins. The sides are adorned by four marble lions, with the water issuing from their mouths : two of these are formed of white Grecian marble, and the other two of black granite. The latter are Egyptian workmanship, and covered with hiero-