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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT TORRE MAXIA. 73guides, travellers, and beasts of burthen, aH were at once swamped ina quagmire. Th~ north of the Sierra, it has been already observed, isargillaeeous.Also ithas been, stated to be a step in the general elevationof the peninsula, immediately above the sandy level of Andalusia,the vieinity of the levelofwater t6 the surface whereofhas been recentlynoted. But this argiUaceolls level Îs most uncommonly humid, andits tenacity isno less remarkable. In fact, the water has no mode ofeseaping but by rarefaction and evaporation iuto the atmosphere, andthat in such a situation is not thework ofa day.Hence these nuisancesnow in question are formed, and continue through a great part of thesufnmer. They are almost invisible, and hardly avoidable: for, thoughbut a feW' yal'dswide, theyoftenextend a mile in length; and whenonce engaged in them, itis no trifling exertion that will extricate manor .heast. They are doublJ treacherous, asthey shift thej:r situationeveryseason. lt has not indeed, probably, as yet come to proof, whetherthey have any boftom or not. Here at 'Torre M:axia is, as thename imports, a very large tower; of Roman construction, and square.Wedged in a wallat the corner of a street, and plastered in with mud,are noticeable three beautiful statues of white marble.:Many similarvestiges ofalltiquity scattered about, indicate a statio~ once of cons,equeuce.FJ'om themanner they aresecured and neglected, the re":'mainsabove mentj;oned~whic});,acre perfect, may seè better days. Itbeiug the month of July, the harvest is DOW' gotten in: the troddenstraw.r