In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .
In the times of the kings and of the republic it was covered with sumptuous edifices, the armilustrum, the temples of Diana, Juno Regina, Dea bona, Minerva, the atrium of Liberty, the palaces of Sura, of Trajan and the thermæ of Decius.
Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven.
The theme can be expressed in an architectural analogy. For, of all contriving to encover space, the arch — alone or 'circulared' into the dome — is the most ingenious.
