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MBltl:DA._TftJ&TEMPLE OF MAR8.-01Rcns. 79But to revel'tto ,Merida, the present scene of observation.temple of Mars with a dedicative inscription.Here is a'l'hase who have everseenone will form a correct idea of thi8; and such as have Dot, willfiu~ repr~sentations of them in abundance in Montfaucon and elsesp~cimendoes not posse8s any eleganee, sublimity, or in­,beyou!dwhatisthecolllmôn boast of its brethren. Its merita$theirs,eompaetness~ndsÛbstântiality. The theatre, the semieirleof whieh is still perfeet, i8 noweonverted, by a correspondent segmentd~addition,into an amphitheatre for bull-fights.In the town lS an intel"~~tingcolumn ofRoman altars of the most superlative workmanship,ea.ç~'~~5i5tssepara;~~ patterll,aU of the purest statuary marble: they arepiledr/in the above forlIl,,;tneir. diameters nappily corresponding, toaconsiderable height; and;ôijthe summlt, triumphantly surmounting aHthis idolatrous pageantryp isthe statuei~fasaintmartyrized by bakingin anoven! Probably Sain~'Eulalia,for no one will be hardy enoughto deny that such su.fferings merited promotion to the situation of patronessof the place.CONCORD! AUGUSTI.frhe Cireus (as it isdenominated) i8mB~$'ÔJt4,rtV'tian