OBSERVATIONS on th DESCRIPTION of the 
THEATRE of SAGUNTUM, as given by EMANUEL 
MARTI, Dean of Alicant, in a Letter addreffed to D. 
ANTONIO FELIX ZONDADARIO. By the Right 
Honourable WILLIAM CONYNGHAM, Treafurer to 
the Royal Trifh Academy. 
Tue commentators upon Pollux, Vitruvius and other ancient 
writers on the form of the Grecian and Roman theatres have 
differed fo much in their explanation of the rules laid down for 
- Read Dec. 
195. 1789. 
their conftru@ion, that the beft commentary upon them would 
feem to be the accurate meafurement and plan of fome one exiit- 
ing theatre: And as the defcription of that of Saguntum given 
by Emanuel Marti, the Dean of Alicant, and publithed amongfit’ 
his letters at the beginning of this century has been inferted in 
the work of Monfaucon, and quoted in the laft Tour through 
Spain by Don Antonio Ponz, as the moft accurate and fatisfatory 
account 
