Let us therefore leave things as they are; and when the fever-season arrives, we can go and inhale the fresh mountain air under the tall trees of Frascati." The last speaker, if I am not greatly mistaken, is a Prelate.

But have a care, Monsignore! Frascati, once so renowned for the purity of its air, now no longer deserves its reputation; and I may say the same of Tivoli.

The quarters of Rome most remarkable for healthiness, such for instance as the Pincian, have of late become unhealthy.

Fever is gaining ground.

It is equally worthy of observation that at the same time the cultivation of the land is diminishing; and that the estates in mortmain--that is to say, delivered into the hands of the priesthood--have been increasing at the yearly rate of from L60,000 to L80,000 a year.