fome for this country, and the apartments are built round a very beautiful, circular court, with 32 fine marble columns below, and as many in a gallery above. Not far from it, there is a delicious garden of the MOORISH KINGS, called the GNIHALARIFFEE, with all kinds of trees, flourishing upon a fteep hanging rock, and as much water as fupplies numberless jette-d'eaux's, and fountains. The rides round the city are charming. THERE is at SAGUNTUM a fquare teffelated pavement, with Bacchus upon a tyger in the middle; a border on the fides, and flowers iffuing in fcrolls from the four corners. There are alfo the almost entire remains of a Roman amphitheatre, built under the castle, upon the fide of a rocky mountain, and commanding a view of a moft fertile country, bounded by the fea.-This theatre, together with some inferiptions, are described in MARTI, the dean of Alicant's epiftles, lately published in 4to. by Mr. WESSELING, and, if I mistake not, the building is fuppofed to have contained 14,000 people. It is certainly a most noble specimen. AT TARRAGONA there are a multitude of Roman infcriptions, most of them to be found in the Annals of Catalonia. Not far from thence, in the road to BARCELONA, you pass under a very handsome triumphal arch, erected by the family of the LICINII, adorned with fluted Corinthian pillars, and a pediment, with dentiles, like the Ionic order. The infcription on the frieze, on one fide, is quite effaced; on the other the letters are more visible, and contain the following :-EX TESTAMENTO L. LICINII. On the other fide was F. SERG. SVRAE CONSECRATVM. (See Anto. Auguft. dialog. IV. p. 142.—a dos Leguas de Tarragona, &c. &c.) A LITTLE way on one fide the road, fomewhat farther on, is the TORRE DE LOS SCIPIONES, or more properly, the tomb of the Scipios: being the base of an obelifk, or pyramid, erected to their memory, with a figure on each fide in the Roman habit; the are by fome judged to exprefs the two SCIPIOs, by others two weeping flaves. E e 2 Ιν IN BARCELONA there is hardly any thing curious, except an old mezzo-releivo of a lion hunting, with different figures, men, horfes, dogs, &c. This is now converted into a ciftern, and stands in the court of one of the canons. Upon a wall by it are two beautiful heads in profile, very well preferved; one reprefenting JULIUS CESAR with the laurel crown; the other with an ornamented helmet. There are fome few family infcriptions. The city is large, but the ftreets are dark and narrow, with as much induftry in them, as if the people were not Spaniards. The fortifications, tho' expensive, are injudicious. I CANNOT conclude this account without prefenting my reader, now I am upon the fubject of Roman antiquities remaining in SPAIN, with the most remarkable genuine Roman infcription written in verse, and still to be seen in a temple near the bridge of ALCANTARA in ESTREMADURA: the architect LACER, who built both the bridge and the temple, was a good poet, as well as builder, tho' his affurance in both arts is scarce to be equalled. . Imp. Nervae Trajano Cæfari Augufto, Germanico, Dacico facrum. Templum in rupe Tagi Superis et Cæfare plenum, Quis, quali dederit voto, fortaffe requiret C. Julius Lacer H. S. F. et See Bleau's Atlas, and Mr. Ap-Rice, p. 116. I LETTER |