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Title: Rollo in Rome

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: November 10, 2007 [EBook #23430]

Language: English

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ROLLO IN ROME,

BY

JACOB ABBOTT.

BOSTON:

BROWN, TAGGARD & CHASE,

(SUCCESSORS TO W. J. REYNOLDS & CO.)

25 & 29 CORNHILL.

1858.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by

JACOB ABBOTT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

[Illustration: THE VATICAN BY TORCHLIGHT. See page 204.]

[Illustration: ROLLO'S TOUR IN EUROPE.

Publishers. Boston.]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--THE DILIGENCE OFFICE, 13

II.--THE JOURNEY, 34

III.--THE ARRIVAL AT ROME, 56

IV.--A RAMBLE, 68

V.--GETTING LOST, 88

VI.--THE COLISEUM, 105

VII.--THE GLADIATOR, 127

VIII.--THE TARPEIAN ROCK, 147

IX.--GOING TO OSTIA, 167

X.--THE VATICAN, 192

XI.--CONCLUSION, 208

ENGRAVINGS.

THE VATICAN BY TORCHLIGHT, (Frontispiece.)

THE MOSAIC SHOP, 12

PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY, 21

THE PONTINE MARSHES,