Excerpt from The Land of the Forum and the Vatican: Or Thoughts and Sketches During an Easter Pilgrimage to Rome In conclusion, I have to express my obligations, more or less, to the labours of my predecessors, especially to the elaborate work of Sir G. Head, in three volumes. Every quotation of Which I am conscious has been ac knowledged in the margin. For many valuable sug gestions, Iam indebted to our estimable and aecom plished travelling companion, the Rev. G. E. Cecil, Whose character does not belie the honoured lineage his name bespeaks. But chiefly the volume is under obli gations for Whatever interest it contains, to numerous quotations from the journal of my Wife, written from day to day during the excitement of travel, and ao knowledged in the dedication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.