![]() ![]() Corn fields, vineyards and numberless mulberry trees diversify the enchanting prospect: here are also to be seen some olive and pomegranate trees. In the neighbourhood of Orange (.) an inhabitant of northern climes will here behold the face of the country totally different from what he had been accustomed to see. Smollett visited Orange on his return trip from Italy, but English travellers on their way to that country were apprised by William Coxe in the 1819 Galignani's Traveller's Guide Through France: Tobias Smollett - Travels through France and Italy - 1766 It seems to me to be as entire and perfect as the arch of Septimius Severus at Rome. The ornaments of the architecture, and the sculpture, are wonderfully elegant for the time in which it was erected and the whole is surprisingly well preserved, considering its great antiquity. (.) It is a very magnificent edifice, adorned on all sides with trophies and battles in basso relievo. These consist of a circus, an aqueduct, a temple, and a triumphal arch. ![]() ![]() Orange, the Arausio of the Romans, is still distinguished by some noble monuments of antiquity. Triumphal Arch in two plates from " Alexandre de Laborde - The Monuments of France Chronologically Classified - 1816-1836": (left) northern side (right) eastern side You may wish to see an introductory page to this section first. (relief at Glanum and quotation from Pliny: "It is More Similar to Italy than to a Province") ![]()
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