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The VATrcAS.-The immense pile Of
building is beyond all Imagination. was
tod It's extreme length through the apart
menis, and not duplicating single room.
was 10000 feet. or nearly fourteen Eng
lish miles. II has 1000 rooms. 200 flights
of stairs. The immense Pile contains most
of tho antiquities of Rome, as well as most
of the celebrated s,atnaTy ard paintings ri
the early as well as The modern artists
There you will see Raphael's immortal
TRANSPORTATION, as we'll as the great tresco
of The Las, Judgement, with an inlnensc
number Of highly merioTious paintings
The sculpture is also great, the Inim.table
so called) Apollo Belvidere, ind the truly
great Dying Gladiator, with 10000 more.
some very lne, and others common; all
the Cnsars, and all the Roman Emperorr,
Presidents and Senators, as well as the ora
tors and poets. and hos, Of gods Of sea,
land and air. in fact, il person was 70
visit the Vatican once or twice, he only
sees the building. 1; will take him 30 days io
get full into the routine, SO as 10 understand
the road from room to room, without valet.
The whole is world Of the fine arts, on 2
much greater scale than any other city can
boast of. in fact, than all the cities in Christ
endom together. The Library Apartment
when all the doors are thrown open, gives
a single view Of 1900 fret, and the Gallery
which you frs; enter, where all the inscrir-
tions in Latin are p.astered in the walls on
each side, is immense. There You will
see thousands of inscriptions, with the
names oil the persons who were merchants,
or shopmen in the early ages, giving list
Of their articles, and the quality. as well as
price. Many OF these were from pomPeii,
aud some from the ruins Of Herculaneum,
and very many of them from he baths of
Oaracalla, the palace and baths OF the
Caesars, and from Adrian's palace, COM
monty called the valln; and also from the
Pantheon and Temples Of Minerva and Ju-
piter. and other gods and goddesses, making
number almost incredible.