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Tiber, othe K. of them is another hill, theM ons Pincins or Collis Hortoram, which was excluded from the ancient city, bat part of it was enclosed in the walls of A nrelian. The Tiber, at its entrance into Rome, very nearly approaches the foot of this hill, and then describes three bold carves or reaches ;first to the SW., then to the SE., and again to the SW. The distance from the spot where the Tiber enters the city to the SW. point of the Aventine is, in a direct line, aboat 2miles. At the extremity of the second, or most eastern reach, it divides itself for a short space into two channels and forms an island, called the Insula Tiberina. At this spot, at about 800 paces from its eastern bank, lies the smallest but most renowned of the seven hills, theM ons Ca pitolinus. It is of a saddle-back shape, depressed in the centre, and rising into two eminences at its S. and N. extremities. On its N. or rather N. BOI fA. side, it most in ancient times have almost tonched the Collis Qoirinalis, the most northerly of the seven, from which a large portion was cat away by Trajan, in order to construct his foram. The Quirinalis is somewhat in the shape of a hook, ronning first to the SW., and then carving its extreme point to the S. Properly speaking, it is not a distinct hill, bat merely a tongue, projecting from the same common ridge which also throws rat the adjoining Vlminal and the two still more southern projections of theE squiline. It will be seen from the annexed plan, without the help of which this description cannot be understood, that the Quirinal, and the southernmost and most projecting tongue of theE squiline, almost meet at their extremities, and enclose a considerable hollow which, however, is nearly filled up by the Viminal, and by the northern and smaller tongue of theE squiline. These two tongues of theE squiline were originally regarded as distinc
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