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Updated: May 20, 2025
Thus, by a kind of sacred procedure, I immerge myself into those old stones and recreate my peculiar Roman mood. It is rather ridiculous. Tradition wills it. To-day came the turn of the Protestant cemetery. I have a view of this place, taken about the 'seventies I wish I could reproduce it here, to show how this spot has been ruined.
Remember Sterne's perruquier. "'You may immerge it, replied he, 'into the ocean, and it will stand. "'What a great scale is everything upon, in this city! thought I. 'The utmost stretch of an English periwig-maker's ideas could have gone no farther than to have dipped it into a pail of water."
There is still another mode, held to be infallible. First, weigh two or three of the most suspected slates, noting the weight; then immerge them in a vessel of water twelve hours; take them out, and wipe them as clean as possible with a linen cloth; and if they weigh more than at first, it denotes that quality of slate which imbibes water: a drachm is allowable in a dozen pounds, and no more.
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