My materials for this subject are, indeed, inexhaustible; but they will serve for some future opportunity.

At present, I am so wonder-struck by so many great objects that I know not where to begin.

One circumstance, however, I cannot omit, which has turned out contrary to your surmises.

You represented to me that Rome was a city in ruins, and that it would not come up to the imagination I had formed of it; but this has not happened--on the contrary, my most sanguine expectations have been surpassed.

Rome is greater, and her remains are more awful, than my imagination had conceived.