YOU SAID:
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
INTO JAPANESE
ローマはレンガの街で、大理石の街でした。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Rome was a brick city, a marble city.
INTO JAPANESE
ローマはレンガの都市、大理石の都市でした。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Rome was a brick city, a marble city.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.