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`` I have got only two or three pieces , '' said Rollo , `` and those I am going to carry home to America for coins . '' At length the changes were completed , and Mr. George and Rollo , and also all the other passengers who had come in the diligence from Naples , began to take their places in the coach for Rome ; while at the same time the other company got into the Naples coach , which was now going to return . The conductor came for his _ buono mano _ , the new horses were harnessed in , the postilions leaped into the saddles , and thus both parties set out upon their night ride . It was not far from nine o'clock . -LSB- Illustration : THE PONTINE MARSHES . -RSB- `` And now , '' said Mr. George , `` before a great while we shall come upon the Pontine Marshes . '' The Pontine Marshes form an immense tract of low and level land , which have been known and celebrated in history for nearly two thousand years .