ry chose to consider them as criminals for being believers in
Jesus, and so doomed them to this dreadful punishment.

It was shocking to think of the scenes that had probably been enacted in
this very amphitheatre; and Mrs. Gray and Rosie, after they had examined
it in every part, were not sorry to go away.

Rollo next directed the coachman to drive to the Temple of Serapis. The
curiosity of the Temple of Serapis, which stands on the shore, just at
the entrance of the town, is, that it is partly under water. It seems
that from the effects of earthquakes, or from some other similar agency,
the whole coast in this region rises and falls in the course of ages,
and that at the present time it is several feet lower than it was in the
days of the Romans. The consequence is, that many structures which were
originally built upon the land, are now partly or wholly submerged in
the sea. In passing along the coast in a boat, you can see a great many
of these ruins in the water. There is one, however, which can be seen
without going out in a boat at all. It is a temple called the _Temple of
Serapis_.

It stands on the margin of the shore, and the floor of it is now about a
foot or two under water. This floor is very extensive, and a great many
columns and other superstructures are still standing upon it, the whole
of which can be easily explored by the visitor, by means of a raised
stone pathway, made by the government, which traverses it in all
directions. It is a very curious place indeed.

Rollo and his party were admitted to the ruin through a gate, kept as
usual by the custodian appointed by the government; and then they walked
all over the ruin upon the raised stone path. They looked down through
the water, and saw the marble floor of the temple below, and the columns
rising up from it with their bases submerged. There is proof that at one
time these ruins were fifteen or twenty feet lower than they are now,
and that they have since come up again. The next earthquake may depress
the whole coast again, in which case the floor of the temple will be
once more deep under water; or it may raise it so as to bring the ruins
all up once more, high and dry.

Rollo wished very much to take a boat, and go out and see the ruins that
lie under water along the coast; but he knew very well that Mrs. Gray
would not like to go out in a boat, nor to have Rosie go, at least
unless Mr. George were with them, and so he did not propose the pla