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The fifth lecture of the series was delivered last night before the usual large audience attracted to Sanders Theatre on these occasions. The subject was Famous Public Gardens in Rome.
The great forum, originally a low swampy ground, was gradually transformed to the magnificent parallogram which its name now calls to our minds. Professor Lanciani gave a very vivid picture of the appearance of the forum as it must have been in antiquity. The best preserved forum in Rome is entirely inaccessible because there are two convents on the site. The forum of Trajan was by all means the most impressive and magnificent.
An area of twenty-five and a half acres was covered by these public places.
The lecture was much more copiously illustrated by the stereopticon than any of the previous ones and fascinated the audience to the end.
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