Engraving, after a celebrated picture by Turner, and a string of
POETICAL GEMS from the Anniversary, Keepsake, and Friendship's
Offering, with unique extracts from such of "the Annuals" as were
not noticed in the previous Supplement.

The Arches of Rome were splendid monuments of triumph, erected in
honour of her illustrious generals. They were at first very simple,
being built of brick or hewn stone, and of a semicircular figure; but
afterwards more magnificent, built of the finest marble, and of a
square figure, with a large, arched gate in the middle, and two small
ones on each side, adorned with columns and statues. In the vault of
the middle gate, hung winged figures of victory, bearing crowns in
their hands, which, when let down, they placed on the victor's head,
when he passed in triumph.

The _Arch of Constantine_, the most noble of all of these structures,
subsists almost entire. It was erected by the senate and Roman people,
in honour of Constantine, after his victory over Maxentius, and
crosses the Appian Way, at the junction of the Coelian and Palatine
Hills. Here it stands as the last monument of Roman triumph, or like
the December sun of "the world's sole monument."

This building consists of three arches, of which the centre is the
largest; and has two fronts, each adorned with four columns of giallo
antico marble, of the Corinthian order, and fluted, supporting a
cornice, on which stand eight Dacian captives of Pavonazzetta, or
violet-coloured marble.

The inscription on both sides of the architrave imports, that it was
dedicated "to the Emperor Cæsar Flavius Constantine Augustus, the