S T . r e m I.
THIS town ftands on the road between Aix and Tarafcone, and was anciently caDed
Glanum. In the thirteenth century it made part of the barony des Beaux, which, for feveral
years, formed a ûnall ftate, governed by its barons, and entirely detached from the
government of Provence : but in the fixteenth century it was annexed to tlie French monarchy,
with the reft of tliat province.
St. Remi, which is at prefent but an inconfiderable town, appears to have been, in the
lime of the Romans, a place of note, if we may judge by the curious remains of antiquity
foimd in its environs.
The fine ruins of a triumphal arch, befides feveral antique fragments, are deferving of
particular notice.
It is built in the cent:« of a plain, not far diflant from the fmall lake La Glacière. The
country is tolerably fertile, and moftly covered with olive and mulberry trees.
The trade corrfifting merely in umvrought lilk and oil, the country people in general
have not that comfortable appearance found in moft otlier parts of Provence ; owing partly
alio to the great uncertainty of their harvcft, which is at all times hazardous, and frequendy
inaufpidous.
Many of the pooreft fort employ themfelves in accofting travellers, prefenting medals
for fale, moft probably of modem manufaéture, firft buried in, and tlien dug out of the
adjacent fields, but which they aiTert are genuine antiques, found in the Roman temples
and batlis ; at the fame time offering dieii- fervice as guides to the amateurs, who are led to
vifit two ruins, fituated on an eminence witliin a mile and a half of the town.
Thefe confift of the triumphal arch above mentioned, and a monument, or (according
to Mr. Morcau de Mautouv, in a difcourfe infertcd in the feventh volume of the Royal
Academy of Infcriptions at Paris) a maufoleum, apparently not quite fo ancient. Thefe
ruins jftand nearly within twelve paces of each other, but they do not feem to have the leaft
ilill'!