and Bernini’s rape of Proserpine.  The Villa Borghese, near Rome, has a fine but an unhealthy situation.  The greatest part of the city, and the environs as far as Frascati and Tivoli, are visible from it.  It has a garden, with a park three miles in circuit.  This palace was ornamented in its interior, and furnished with so much richness and elegance, that it might have been considered the first edifice in Rome, next to the capitol, particularly for its fine collection of statues.  The most remarkable among them were the Fighting Gladiator; Silenus and a Faun; Seneca, in black marble, or rather a slave at the baths; Camillus; the Hermaphrodite; the Centaur and Cupid; two Fauns, playing on the flute; Ceres; an Egyptian; a statue of the younger Nero; the busts of Lucius Verus, Alexander, Faustina and Verus; various relievos, among which was one representing Curtius; an urn, on which was represented the festival of Bacchus; another supported by the Graces; two horns of plenty, etc.  The greatest part of these has not been restored from Paris.  The exterior is ornamented with ancient reliefs.  The Villa Pamfili, before the Porta di San Pancrazio, also called Belrespiro, has an agreeable situation, and is seven miles in circumference.  The architecture is by Algardi, but has been censured by connoisseurs.  In the interior there are some fine specimens of sculpture.  Full descriptions of this and of the Villa Borghese have been published.  The Villa Albani, upon an eminence which commands Tivoli and the Sabina, is an edifice of taste and splendor.  The cardinal Alexander Albani expended immense sums upon it, and, during the space of fifty years, collected a splendid cabinet.  The ceiling of the gallery was painted by Mengs, and is a model of elegance.  The Villa Lante and the Villa Corsini deserve to be mentioned on account of their fine prospects.  The Villa Doria (formerly Algiati), in which Raffaelle lived, contains three fresco paintings of this great master.  The Villa Farnese contains the remains of the palace of the Roman emperors.  The capitol contains so many and such magnificent objects of every description, that it is impossible to enumerate them here.  We must be satisfied with mentioning the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, before the palace; the Captive Kings, in the court; the columna rostrata; and within, the colossal statue of Pyrrhus; the tomb of Severus; the Centaurs, of basalt; the beautiful alabaster pillars; the masterpiece in mosaic, which once belonged to cardinal Furietti, representing three doves on the edge of a vessel filled with water, which is described by Pliny.  The fountains are among the principal ornaments of the squares in Rome.  The fountain in the Piazza Navona, the most splendid of them all, has been particularly admired; it is surmounted by an obelisk, and ornamented by four colossal statues, which represent the four principal rivers in the world.  The fountain of Paul V., near the church di San Pietro in Montorio, is in bad taste,