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 EXPLORATIONS IX ROME. 261 (miscalled the Areo cli Paiitaiio) is of the Gabii stone called aperone, ^Yhich was generally used in the time of the Republic, before the lloniaiis, had possession of Tivoli or Tibei", Avith its quarries of travertine. There was a similar doorway arch at the end of the next street (where the remains of the temple of Pallas stand), which is shown in a drawing of Palladio, to whom this ruin was given by the Vo])ii as build- ing materials, and who has preserved this record of them. This street had been the " Forum transitorium " of Xerva, and a wall of travertine was built to divide the Forum from that of Augustus. This wall is about twenty feet high, and is inserted at an angle in the lower part of the old wall of the kings, which is sixty feet high and twelve feet thick. This junction is still visible behind the houses on the side of this street at the north-east corner. The great wall of the second City of Rome must then have passed at the back, or eastern side of the Velia, with the great fosse, now the Via del Colossco, outside of it ; then turning at an angle in front of the Colosseum, and at the further end of the great platform, where the Church of S. P'rancisca Romana now stands. It continued alonir the south- cast end of the Palatine, and at its foot, with the great fosse continued outside of it, now to the Via di S. Gregorio, then turning the angle of the Palatine, we find it on the western side towards the Circus Maximus, again behind the houses, and in a garden. Soon after this it arrives at the towers under the Church of S. Anastasia at another angle. These towers, of which the lower part only remains, have been called the Puhinarium, or cushioned gallery of the kings, by the side of the Circus J[aximus ; they may have been used for that purpose, but were not likely to have been built for it. At this point there are two towers close together, which might have been necessary to protect an angle of the fortification. The wall then crossed the valley to the bank of the Tiber, with part of the river Almo near its raouth for a wet ditch, and on the bank of the Tiber the fine tufa wall called the Pnlc/irum Littns was built, of which we have remains in several places, and by which we can trace it along the Tiber to the bridge called Ponte Rotto, and beyond that to the other bridge called the Ponte Quattro Capi, which goes across to the island. This old tufa wall then turned again at an angle to join the western side of the liiil of