Essex (CVS 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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Rome, ltaly One aTTer The oTher, The cenTuries have passed over Rome, each one leaving iTs Trace and all These Traces superimposed. During our Tours To Rome iT was apparenT ThaT The ciTy has an excess oT riches. ln every cor-2 ner Rome possesses churches, sTaTues and monumenTs. The Traian Column which, anywhere else, would have been surrounded by a respecTTul void, is here, in The sTreeT. The Roman STreeT has The cheerTulness of a circus. IT is lively, noisy and animaTed. We re- ceived The consTanT impression ThaT There musT be acelebraTion Three blocks away and ThaT every- one was hurrying To iT. There are TounTains everywhere whose reTreshing splash Trickles inTo The noises oT The sTreeT. In Rome, as in mosT oT lTaly, The child is king. IT one scolds a youngsTer on The sTre-eT iT is likely To sTarT a rioT because all The kniTTing moThers will suddenly Turn aggressive. LeT us leave oTT The TuTile Task oT Trying To describe Rome wiTh words and look aT These Tol- lowing picTures, remembering our enTire Trip To The l'ETernal CiTy . 'U'-' ' -' il--T-Vii-'.2.Z..s-.,1,:i-, .g:.---f2:..':-' .. ,