La Plata too, and Danube's streams unite Their liquid treasures, copious, clear and bright.'

" During the summer, it is the custom occasionally to permit the water to overflow the whole square, for the entertainment of the people ; and on midsummer's eve persons amuse themselves by wading and driving through the flood. This practice has sometimes been attended with fatal acci-

dents, and not only men but horses have actually been drowned in the attempts to pass it in carriages.

" In the month of August the area of the square is likewise filled with water for the purpose of amusement.

" The same square likewise contains two other fountains, one of which consists of a capacious marble basin, having at its centre a Triton holding a dolphin by the tail ; and on the margin of the basin are four heads with the same number of Tritons that spout the water from their mouths. The other fountain has not any remarkable characteristics to

entitle it to peculiar attention."

" Where formerly stood the circus of Flora is now the site of the Piazza Barberinni, which has two fountains to embellish it : --one of them being composed of four dolphins supporting a large open shell, with a Triton in the middle ejecting water to a great height. The other is fanciful,

being also formed of an open shell, from which three bees throw out the water."

" In the vicinity of the Temple of Vesta stands a handsome fountain, having a capacious basin, in which some Tritons support a large marble shell. From the centre of the latter, the water spouts to a considerable height, and then descending flows over its margin into the basin beneath. Some fine fountains adorn the magnificent colonnade in front of the Cathedral of St.