It is likewise thronged with idlers, lounging over the iron railing, and with Forestieri, who came hither to see the famous fountain.

Here, also, are seen men with buckets, urchins with cans, and maidens (a picture as old as the patriarchal times) bearing their pitchers upon their heads.

For the water of Trevi is in request, far and wide, as the most refreshing draught for feverish lips, the pleasantest to mingle with wine, and the wholesomest to drink, in its native purity, that can anywhere be found.

But now, at early midnight, the piazza was a solitude; and it was a delight to behold this untamable water, sporting by itself in the moonshine, and compelling all the elaborate trivialities of art to assume a natural aspect, in accordance with its own powerful simplicity.
"What would be done with this water power," suggested an artist, "if we had it in one of our American cities?
Would they employ it to turn the machinery of a cotton mill, I wonder ?" "The good people would pull down those rampant marble deities," said Kenyon, "and, possibly, they would give me a commission to carve the one-and-thirty (is that the number ?) sister States, each pouring a silver stream from a separate can into one vast basin, which should represent the grand reservoir of national prosperity." "Or, if they wanted a bit of satire," remarked an English artist, "you could set those same one-and-thirty States to cleansing the national flag of any stains that it may have incurred.

The Roman washerwomen at the lavatory yonder, plying their labor in the open air, would serve admirably as models." "I have often intended to visit this fountain by moonlight,", said Miriam, "because it was here that the interview took place between Corinne and Lord Neville, after their separation and temporary estrangement.