A Californian circling the globe (1904) (14595826538)

Identifier: californiancircl00full (find matches)
Title: A Californian circling the globe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fuller, Henry. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Nazarene publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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for all other pictures. We hired a guide and walked among the ruins of em-perors palaces on Palatine Hill. The extent and magnifi-cence of these ruins, with the Stadium passing through thecenter, and many underground passages, is simply aston-ishing. We saw beautiful frescoes still clinging to the walls,and walked over mosaic pavements that echoed to the treadof the mighty men of Rome over two thousand years ago.Just here, near the Stadium, are the ruins of the JudgementHall, and I stood where Paul and Peter were Condemned todeath by Nero. We walked into the Coliseum, one of theseven wonders of the world, finished after the destruction ofJerusalem by Titus, as thousands of Jews were brought pris-oners to Rome and compelled to work on this great structure.I counted sixteen stairways, from twelve to sixteen feetwide, coming from the outside and leading to different tiersof seats, with landings for each tier. Immense columns orpillars were the only obstructions to entering on any side. .
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ARCH OF TITUS.ROME, FROM ROME TO SMYRNA. 109 I stood over the arena, and thought of the many thousandsof Christians that were fed to the lions, for over two hundredyears, as each night there gathered 100,000 of these cruelheathen Romans to exult over their cries and groans, as theywere torn in pieces. Near the Coliseum stands a great arch erected by Constan-tine on one of the citys roads. Loaded teams are very fre-quently passing under this arch, linking the past to thepresent by the lapse of many centuries. Near by was thegreat Circus Maximus, where chariot races were run, largeenough to hold one million of spectators. There was a squaremile laid off for games and sports, and also room for sixteenhundred baths, all constructed of the finest of marble, withgreat pipes having silver mouths to deliver hot water of anydegree of temperature. Mighty Rome with its once fourmillions or more of population, its emperor living in a houselined with gold, its five hundred senators living in silve