others not more than two. There were originally fifty-two of these, of which forty-five are preserved. While the seven are all gone, the forty-five are all there, but some few of them have been replaced.

The opening which you see near the center of the picture is the place where the animals were brought into the arena, and leads to various rooms, surroundded by massive walls, in which the animals were kept; rooms or dens, which are still in a good state of preservation.

The marble balustrade which you see over this opening, and which is still well preserved, is the place where the Emperor sat with his family, and there is another on the opposite side, though you do not see it, which was occupied by the Senators.

The fragment of wall which you see at the top of the picture on the right, is a fragment of the Facade in front of the building, which rises to the height of about one hundred and ten feet, the other wall averaging on the outside about seventy-five feet. This fragmentary wall consists simply of blocks of marble, lying one upon another, and it would not take as much of a shock of earthquake as they had at Charleston to throw them off. Of course it is dangerous; but the people here do not like to admit it.

We will now go through that opening that I spoke of, and winding our way among the massive walls, get on the outside. And now you must take the other photograph. For some reason the fraginentary wall does not in this view appear to be shown. But you see the two stories of arcades which constitute the outer wall, which is very well represented.

But now there is another part of the building to be described, which is not photographed. That is the space between this outward circular wall, and the arena. That entire space is filled with rooms, dens, halls, stairways, passages, etc., a wonderful labyrinth, every thing being bounded, divided and arched by walls of the most massive description. You can form some idea of the mass of stone and marble and cement in these spaces, when you take the dimensions of the arena, and reflect that all the balance is occupied in that way. I do not know the exact diameter of the open space or arena proper, it is about one hundred and thirty by something over two hundred feet but you will see by the first photograph how small it is compared with the distance across at the top. Now that whole space represented by the difference is taken up as I have stated.

I do not now have in mind any building of modern times that requires such an amount of marble stone and inason work, as did this structure.

There it stands, a grand structure. 1,600 feet in circumference, the walls still standing to the height of eighty feet, within thirty feet or so of the complete height of the building, and there are the marble seats inside-forty-five tiers clear round, all but seven of the upper tiers, which are gone. And there is a portion of the Facade standing, to the height of one hundred and seventeen feet, looking toward the bridge across the Adige, which the Emperor had to cross in coming to the amphitheater-for he had his summer residence in Verona at the foot of the Alps and near the Appennines. The rapidly flowing Adige passes through it. Of course it is healthy in Verona, and there was his palace on yonder height across the river. Do you doubt whether he attended? There you can see still the marble balustrade and balcony at one end near the lower seats which was occupied by himself and family, and at the other end was and is another for Senators. That of the Emperor is directly over the opening through which the wild beasts came into the arena. Sitting there he could better see how they were received by the gladiators.

In the presence of this building you are in the presence of the past. It carries you at once back over decades of centuries. You can see the Roman people all around, gathering together from the city and from the country and villages around about, to witness an expected entertainment. The emperor has built this structure for their gratification, and they need not fear being excluded. Twenty-five thousand can be seated, and seventy thousand more can have standing room, for the seats are two and an half to three feet deep from back to back. And they need not be afraid of falling with those massive walls of granite underneath, all through only small rooms, dens for wild beasts, halls, stairways, etc. All the rest solid walls. As well might they if on the top of a mountain fear falling down through the rock underneath. You can see the people assembling-thousands have already entered the building, and other thousands are lining the way to the bridge over which the Emperor must cross. There is a murmur and commotion-the Emperor is coming-he is on the bridge-he has crossed, and now he appears, in his splendid chariot, drawn by six horses gaily caparisoned. The people throw up their hands and shout as he passes.

And now there is a grand rush for the building. But the centurions are there, and they must wait until the Emperor and his family and the Senators have been seated. Then they pour in by thousands and ten of thousands-and soon nearly a hundred thousand people of all ages and both sexes are gazing down into the arena. And now the door is thrown open; the beasts enter, and the combats commence. One luckless combatant is over-powered, and falls, weltering in his blood. He hears the clamors of the excited multitude, but scarcely any sound of pity soothes his passage to another world. Another combatant is victorious, and greeted by enthusiastic and tumultuous plaudits. To all this and more, which took place one thousand and six hundred years ago, do these walls and these marble seats testify-living witnesses. And so the past comes back again—the intervening centuries have disappeared.

To me there is nothing more suggestive of the past them the tolling of the church bells, which is occurring so much of the time in all the principal European cities.

It seems to me that the bells of to-days are tolling in response to those of yesterday; and those again to those of the day before; and those again to those of the week and month before; and so on back, back, through the years, the decades and the centuries, to the time when the churches were built. And then the refrain was echoed back by other bells in churches now no more, back, back, through the centuries.

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