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loftiest of the public buildings, its height being above 300 feet, and it does not exhibit anysettlement.
Ancona was founded by a colony from Syracuse , which settled there about 400 years beforeChrist, and the Homans constituted it one of their principal naval stations on the shores ofthe Adriatic.
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The emperor Trajan constructed the splendid mole which now remains, as well as thefine triumphal arch which adorns it.
Hie mole, a solid mass of masonry, rises to a considerable height above the sea; thestones that compose it are large, and cramped together firmly with iron; below it is anothermole with a triumphal arch, the work of Vanvitelli . At the extremity is the lighthouse, allsolidly constructed, and equally creditable to him as a civil engineer, as is the arrangementof the lazaretto.
Antium was once a considerable port, the capital of the Volsci; it was greatly improvedin the time of Nero , and much resorted to by the opulent Romans, who had villas in theneighbourhood. The road to it runs along the Alban hills , over the Campagna, and thenthrough a forest which for many miles borders the sea coast.
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