FT. ayler’s Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts. 
baffled. By royal command, at the sug- 
gestion of Mazzochi, the manuscripts 
syvere lodged in the Museum at Portici, 
and numbered; but, owing to the folly 
of the Spaniard, were not classed in two 
divisions, so as to denote the quantity 
found in each of the two respective rooms. 
rer THEIR DEVELOPEMENT. 
_ -To advance the developemeut and in- 
terpretation of these volumes, Charles 
ILI. instituted a society; it consisted of 
members, the most celebrated. in. that 
country for their literary attainments,— 
the Marguis Tannucci, Mazzochi, the 
Prelate Baiardi, and some few others. 
‘When Piaggi, the inventor of the process, 
which I have more circumstantially de- 
scribed in my former letter, had, toge- 
ther with his scholar, Vincenzo Merli, 
unrolled a page, or any tolerable series 
of characters, in any fragment, they sub- 
mitted, in either case, whatever they 
had gained, to Mazzochi, who applied 
himself most successfully to the elucida- 
tion of it. The first manuscript they 
opened had the title of the work, and 
the name of the author, at the end, that 
is, upon the most interior part of the 
roll... The work, as the title imported, 
was upon music, the name of the au- 
thor Phitodemus. 
Perhaps it may not be thought totally 
pninteresting, showld I lay before your 
Royal Highness a view of some specimens 
of titles, and names, and other final in- 
scriptions from those * Papiri,” which 
were opened under my direction. 
_ At the end of the manuscript, No. 
1042, which Camillo Paderni began to 
unro! 23d January, 1802, and finished 
22d March in the same year, there are, 
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MR. HAYTER’S LABORS. 
Before the commencement of my Jas 
bors in 1802, there had been opened, 
during more than forty years,only eighteen 
manuscripts. Of what materials their 
substance was formed, I have already 
mentioned. The process or mode of 
opening them, has been described in my 
first letter. The points, at which the 
‘‘ papyraceous” shcets were fastened to- 
gether by a cement or gum, are often 
visible. I should conceive, that’ the 
longest roll, composed of these cemented 
sheets, could not have exceeded, in any 
instance, forty feet, and no sheet could 
have been longer than three feet, or 
thereabouts; the breadth of the sheet, 
as it must naturally suggest itself, must 
constitute the length of each roll, which, 
taking all the manuscripts one with ano- 
ther, is a varying measure from somes 
what less than a palm to something, but 
very little, moré thana foot. In writing, 
the ancients placed the length of the roll 
horizontally, and the breadth was per- 
pendicularly divided into columns, as 
they are called, or pages, with a varying 
interval between each, sometimes of 
more, sometimes. of less, than an inch, 
When the whole mass was folded into 
a volume, or roll, they beyan to fold it 
at the end. Hence, asl have observed 
before, the name of the writer and titfe 
of the work have hjtherto, except in two 
instances, been found in the innermost 
part of the manuscript. Very inconsi- 
derable pieces of the stick with “ umbi+ 
lici,” or rollers, round which the folds 
were made, and of its heads, have been 
found in very rare instances; butin each 
justance they are either pulverized, oy 
reduced 
