It Was By Excavation That A Man Discovered A Large Hall Wherein He Found The Nine Beautiful Statues Of The Muses, Which Now Adorn The Museum Of The Vatican; And No Doubt If The Roman Government Would Recommence The Excavations Many More Valuables Might Be Found.

Hadrian's villa has already furnished many a statue, column and pilaster to the Museums, churches and Palaces of Rome.

I was much more gratified in beholding the remains of this Villa than in visiting Tivoli and I remained here several hours. At four o'clock in the afternoon I started on my return to Rome; it was imprudent not to have started sooner, as it is always dangerous to be outside the walls of Rome after dark, in consequence of the brigands who infest the environs and sometimes come close to the walls of the city.

I reached my hotel in Rome at nine o'clock, one hour and half after dark, but had the good fortune to meet nobody. The Roman peasantry generally go armed and those who feed cattle in the fields of the Campagna or have any labour to perform there never sleep there on account of the mal'aria.

[93] Horace, Epist., II, 1, 156. - ED.

[94] Horace, Sat., i, 5, 26. - ED.

[95] A carlino is of the value of half a franc or five pence English. The accounts in Naples are kept in ducati, carlini and grani. Ten carlini make a ducat and ten grani (a copper coin) make a carlino. A grano is a sou French in value.

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