the same Side are several very sorry Houses, or rather Huts. The Right-hand of the Square consists of Hay-Barns, and two or three wretched Hovels. From the Square _del Popoli_, I shall run through the three Streets which lead from thence to the chief Quarters of ROME. I shall begin with that in the Middle, which fronts the Gate. ’Tis called the Street _del Corso_, because there it is that in the Carnival Time, the _Barbary_ Horses run Races, and where there is the _Pasciggio_, or Ring, frequented every Day by the Coaches. This Street runs thro’ almost all ROME, and has some fine Houses in it, particularly the Palaces _Ruspoli_, _Gicci_, _Carolis_, _Mancini_, _Pamphili_, and _Bolognetti_. It crosses the Squares of St. _Mark_ and _Colonna_. The first is a Quadrangle, encompassed with good substantial Buildings, and adorned with the famous _Antonine_ Pillar, which the Senate caused to be erected to the Honour of _Antoninus the Pious_, whose Statue was formerly on the Top of it, but has since given place to the Effigies of St. _Paul_. St. _Mark_’s Square is so called, because it lies before the Church dedicated to the Saint of that Name. In it stands the Palace of _Venice_, a vast Pile of Building, now occupied by the Ambassador of the Republic, but was the Residence of Pope _Sixtus_ V. The second Street which takes its Rise in the Square _del Popoli_, is called _la Strada Ripetta_. It has nothing in it remarkable but the Stairs leading down to the _Tiber_, which are of a grand Design, and so contrived, that there are two Flights of a Stair-case, without Steps, for the Convenience of the Horses that carry the Goods which are landed at the Foot of the Stairs; that being one of the principal Ports of ROME.