CHAPTER III.
ST.-REMY.
The town of St.-Remy is delightfully situated in a hollow that resembles the crater of an extinct volcano, and is surrounded by luxuriant groves of olive.

The streets, though generally narrow, are rendered picturesque by several old houses, the architecture of which is striking; and the _place_--for even St.-Remy has its Place Publique and Hotel-de-Ville--is not without pretensions to ornament.

In the centre of this _place_ is a pretty fountain, of a pyramidal form.
The antiquities which attracted us to St.-Remy are at a short distance from the town, on an eminence to the south of it, and are approached by a road worthy the objects to which it conducts.

They consist of a triumphal arch, and a mausoleum, about forty-five feet asunder.
Of the triumphal arch, all above the archivault has disappeared, leaving but the portico, the proportions of which are neither lofty nor wide.

On each side of it are two fluted columns, said to have been of the Corinthian order, but without capitals, and the intercolumniations, in each of which are figures of male and female captives.
A tree divides the male from the female; their hands are tied, and chained to the tree; and a graceful drapery falls from above the heads down to the consoles on which the figures stand.
On the eastern side of the arch are also figures, representing two women, by the side of two men.