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 l~ rnorosKD pl'kchase of il<J^'L^ll•:^'TS. 9. The site of the Temple of Pallas or Minerva, in the Forum Transi- torinm of Nerva, now a bakehouse, hiding the lower part of the fine columns on which is the rich entablature with the figure of Pallas. 10. The house at the south end uf the great wall of the kings, which formed part of the second wall of Home to enclose the two hills (the Palatine and the Hill of .Saturn) in one city. These houses conceal the junction of the wall of travertine, of the time of the early Empire, that divided the Forum of Augustus from the Forum Transitorium of Nerva, where it is built into the lower part of the great wall of the kings at an angle. 11. To purcliase and pull down the nunnery which occupies the site of the greater part of the Forum of Augustus. This must be sold shortly. The arclucologists have been rigidly excluded from that ground for the last fifty years. 1 2. To purchase the remains of the Torre de' Conti, a mediiicval tower built upon an old tower of tufa, of the time of the kings, which Rirmed an angle in the wall of the second city of Rome. It is now a warehouse for timber and a timber-yard. 13. The cave-reservoir, at the mouth of the Aqua Aj)pia, within which is a large inner cave with a natural spring of water in it. This part is always knee-deep in water ; it may probably have been the Cave in which the cixttle were concealed in the time of Romulus. The only entrance to it is by a narrow doorwaj' through which the aqueducts passed. It is near the Marmorata, and the Porta Trigemina, under the Monastery of S. Alessio and the Priorato, or priory of the knights of Malta, this will also have to be sold. 14. Another cave-reservoir, under Santa Sabba, on the Aventine, in which several aqueducts cast their remaining water into the spccus or conduit of the Aqua Appia, the earliest and lowest of the atpieducts. lo. The Amphithealrum Castrense and the Vivarium, mentioned by Procopius, now in the garden of the monastery of Santa Croze, in Cerusa- lemme, wiiich also must be sold shortly. 16. The porticus of the Thernue of Caracalla, or arcade begun by that emjteror, and finished by his successor, Ileliogabalus, with a bath- chamber under each of the arches ; two of which have been cxcavateil. Jt is now a vineyard, which is for sale. 17. The vineyard of the Cavaliero Guidi, in which are considerable remains of the private hou.se of the Emperor Hadrian, with mosaic jiavo- nients and painted chambers, miscalled the " House of Asinius Pollio.'' The Cavalicre is willing to sell it. 18. Another vineyard, adjoining to the last, at the south ciid and west side of the great Thermie, containing the Piscina or Kescrvoir of the Thermic and a consideralile part of the <»uter wall and outer buildings on the north and west sides of the main building in the centre. I'J. Another vineyard, on the eiusteru side fif the Via Appia, coutaiuing the remains of the Thermie of Comuiodus and Sevi'nis, under a small hill, calle<l .Monte d'Oro. 20, Another vineyard, on the western side of the i'orta Ajipia, or di S. Sc'lMUitiano, within the wall, in which are the most perfect part of the Corridor of Aiux-liun for the sentinid'H path, with a jiainting of the Madonna, Haid to be of the sixth century, an<l the interior «»f the Porta Ardeatina, a gate-house of the fii-st century, aii<l several tombs. Onwlbury, Agnow, * Uo., Piinton, WbiUfrlun.