Being in the Neighbourhood of that great Square call’d _Campo-vaccino_, I cannot help giving you some Account of it; not that I pretend to particularize it, because I have not sufficient Learning. Here we see the admirable Ruins of the Magnificence of old ROME, which I cannot behold without pitying the Condition they are in at present. You wou’d have the same Concern as I have, were you in the Middle of a large Square, and to see nothing all round it but Ruins; to see on one Side the Walls of the ancient Capitol, on the other the _Constantine_ Arch erected with so much Expence by the Senate and People of ROME, broken and half-bury’d; beyond that, the Arch of _Titus_, in a Condition still worse; on your Left, the immense Ruins of the Temple of _Peace_; the Vestigies of the Temple of _Antoninus_ and _Faustina_, on the Architrave of which is this vain Inscription, _Divo Antonino, Divæ Faustinæ_; on your Right-hand the melancholy Ruins of the Temple of _Concord_, which, to judge of it by the eight Pillars that are still remaining, must have been very superb; it was built to fulfil a Vow made by the Dictator _Furius Camillus_ for having reconcil’d the _Plebeians_ and the _Patricians_. ’Twas in this Temple, according to _Varro_, that the Senate assembled to treat of the Affairs of the Republic. In short, here are so many other unfortunate Remnants of the Mistress of the Universe, as wou’d put you in mind of the Instability of this World, and that all is Vanity. But what wou’d you say, if you shou’d go on till you come to the famous _Coliseum_, which Time, the Destroyer of all Things, had spar’d, but was destroy’d by Men, and such too as were most concern’d in the Preservation of every thing in ROME that was beautiful? And what wou’d you think, if you saw there was scarce enough remaining of this stately Edifice to give you an Idea of what it was once? ’Twas _Vespasian_ that caus’d it to be built after the Model which was intended by _Augustus_. Its Form on the Outside is round, and ’tis built of a prodigious Height, intirely of great Free-Stones. The Court or Arena is oval. There were three distinct Rows of Seats in the Amphitheatre, the highest for the Senators, the second for the Knights, and the third for the common People. They say it contain’d eighty-five thousand Spectators. It was dedicated by _Titus_, who upon that Occasion celebrated a great Feast, distributed large Sums to the common People, and enter’d five thousand wild Beasts of all Sorts into it in one Day. _Paul_ III. and _Urban_ VIII. caus’d the _Coliseum_ to be demolish’d, and made use of the Stones for building the Palaces which are now inhabited by their Families.