| Show ROME IN WINTER I Eternal Citjj Climate is World FamousIU Water Supply The fame of Home 03 a winter reol l wVf6 l wldeoprud Foreigners as well as Italians from other proUnccs < ore to Home In tens of thousands to pass the winter attracted by Its cli mate The cold Is I always moderate and In the heart of wolnter when the art m other parts Is I covered with snow Jlome appears to be In tho full au tumnal season The aveiage v > Inter tempmture dunnll Vcmher Jaaunry and February observed for tuontj years Is 4532 Fahrenheit In Turin under similar conditions It Is I 34 8 Milan 35 78 Venice as 48 Florence 42 nnd Naples 46 Tho sky Is I frequently clear says Mendlnl and the sun Rllds with Us rays our habitations and makes our gardens fruitful so that ornnge tre anl oam lIIn In the open ar n on the tepl1 10ulh o the Tyrhennlan ea Peopl uIerlng lrem lIene or the rht at the 11 of tho autumnal leave their moro In cloment cUmate to come to nom which offers the advantages of the climate mate ot the Hlvlcra with the distrac tions of a lirge city The wnter 01 10me has a worlIwlte celebrity Tha number of the aqueducts of ancient Homo strikes the Imagination Imagina-tion ot 1 readers Water was brought to Rome by fourteen aqueducts the length of which varied from a minimUm mini-mUm or elven to a maxlmnm oC Ofy nine miles The aggregate length of these fourteen aqueducts writes Ian olunl mounteoJ to 360 mie oC whlh J04 miles were undergroundand fifty 00 mi alovo < l the olnnnl being caried goun top of really triumphal arcades nt prodigious hlht sometimes exceeding 100 feet The main aqueducts ot Ttomc supplied the Inhabitants with a dally volume of El 000000 cubic feet of water The dally water supply at the present time through the four great aqueducts of the Aqua Verglne Aqua Felice Aqua Iola nud Aqua Mnr < I I pprol mntely 6340000 lon And thl wtrr Is I all of remarkable purity I Is I no wonder that Dr Pyre should say that the watr upply hlrh la on Ihe oon tnt Stem I one 01 tho purt nnd rertlnl the mt abllnJnnt In the orIJHom Correpondnce oC tho Tlaltmore Sun |
