But his mind was not entirely occupied with antiquities and classical lore. The Sunday before, he and the young English curate had spent the time between morning and evening services "in wandering thro' the shady part of the Terra Reale engaged in converse on Theology, Roman Catholic claims, etc." Although he was sorely tempted to join Clarke and a companion on a journey to Jerusalem, where the Christian religion was founded, he resisted the invitation, confiding to his journal: "as I started for Rome, to Rome I must go in the first place." After a pleasant two days' tour with agreeable companions which had taken him through Capua and over the Campagna along the route of the Via Appia, he arrived in Rome on the afternoon of Thursday, February 24, 1842. The Sunday following he went in the afternoon to hear Dr. Baggs preach at "St. Maria," and the next day he took his letter of introduction to Dr. Paul Cullen, who received him kindly and helped him to find private lodgings in the city.