the capital of the pope's territories and of Italy, and anciently the metropolis of the Roman Empire: E. lon. 13°, N. lat. 41° 45'.

Rome is still a large and fine city, though not to be com- pared to ancient Rome; the streets are spacious, and magnificently built; it has five bridges over the Tiber, twenty gates, three hundred churches, and a vast number of palaces, convents, triumphal arches, pillars, obelisks, statues, theatres, &c.