628 HetrofpeB of Domefuc Literature — Topograph]/ and Aniiquiikit, 



flyle anrl congruitv. — Mr. Britton there- 

 fore cliaraCtpri/<js fiich puhlic buildings 

 as were cifCted during the rei^iis of 

 Henry Vlll. I'-lizabeih and Janjfw I. 

 by the terms, dtbaj'ed Englijh or Aiiglo- 

 Italiun, Tlie extent of the work it is now 

 determined, is not to exceed four vo 



pillar, not the pillar of Pompey the drear, 

 indeed, but the pill.i.r dedicated bjr Pcni- 

 pey, prefect of I'-gyiJt, to the emperor 

 J^iodetmn. 



'I'he " Account of an AM)cy of Nuns 

 formerhj fituuted in the Street cnlfcd the 

 Minority, in the County of MirldUfvr, 



lunics: coinprifiug engravinns of at leuft. and Liberty of the Touer of jAmd/Di," 

 two hundred atid lifty fperiniens of tlic 

 ancient iiylciof building in jMiglaiid, de- 

 fining and elucidating all the vai-ietics 

 which are to bo found not only in the ec- 

 clelialiicalj but in the callellated and do- 

 inedic edificcb of the country. We lia\e 

 only to add that the author's exertions to 

 dffcrveenconragenicnt, ha\e not hitherto 

 been flfickeDed. While the work conti- 

 nues of luchincrit,we lliall notice every 

 part as it apjicars. 



Mr. Stock iiovsi-'s " Illiiftrnlion of the 

 I'hwvU or Ancient Iiurro7i.s," feein.s to 

 facritico too much to fyltem. Ha\ing 

 fpoken of the primary ufes of beacons, 

 barrows, ramparts or terraces, and caflles 

 or entrenched hills, be wiflies in a collec- 

 tive point of view to connect the biliory 

 of ihefc diiferent erections. The tafk 

 may be aniuling, but we cannot think it 

 an ufefiil one. \Vc fee uotlung in the 

 ap))earance or'delign of thcfe tlilfercnt 

 remains which may indicate either the 

 coutinuution or completion of a general 

 plan. 



The fiftce?ith volume of the " Anha- 

 ologia" by the Society of Antiquaries, is 

 one of the bell we have fecn for a confi- 

 derable time. Its contents are of courfe 

 various: and though Ibme of the pa|)crs 

 ■which coTupofe it have inferior merit, 

 there are others which amjjly coinpen- 

 fale in mteroll. Of iheie it \m1I be futfi- 

 cientto ielert liirce or four; the limits of 

 a llcU'olpeCt like ours, not allowing us to 

 e.xtcnd our obfervations farther. 



" An Account of the Greek Infcriplion 

 c« I'umpcy's Filiar," by Capt. \V . M. 

 l.FAKK and Lieut. Joiix .SyLin^;, in a 

 Letter to Dr. Uaiiie, will attiact the at- 

 tention of the iLholiir. — " The difcovery, 

 lays Dr. R;ii)ie, feem* to me to be of 

 conlidcrable iinpi)rtance, and the learned 

 world muft lament that young men fo 

 zealo'-is in the caufe of ancient literature, 

 (liould have had the mistbrtune to lofc 

 by Ihipwrtck many treafurcs coUetted in 

 vaiioub ]varts of Greece." A remark 

 made upou the name of the Prcfe<;t nien- 

 tioned in the Ldcription, of which rio 

 only remains, induced the Doctor to be- 

 lieve that the word was originally 

 no,aw»)i'of, and that we owe to this the 

 tradition ot us being called I'oinpcy'o 

 1 



(ornmunicated by Dr. Fly, is curious, 

 iiut probably too mimite. . 



Tiie next arti? le " On the ancient linlls 

 of I'ajiyrnn, difcvvi nd at Hercidi.uiviiw, 

 and the Method employed to unroll them," 

 in a Letter from the Hon. Mr.MtY GiiKY 

 BtNNr.TT, to '.be Rev. S.\.Mi £i. IIe.slf.y, 

 we fhall extract entire. 



UM'.on,Not<.^5, 1802. 



" Sir, — In con!Vf|uence(jf the conver- 

 fation which I had the honour to hold 

 \>itli you, 1 take an e.irly opportunity of 

 c\planiing, as far as the want of an ori- 

 ginal manul'cript will admit, the procefs 

 of unrolling the ancient I'apyri, difco- 

 vered in Ikrculaneum. 



" The Papyri, of the Greeks and Ro- 

 mans, arc uniioi'.btodiv known to yon as 

 the inlide coating of a jjlant of the fame 

 name; it fomierly was common in \ari0n3. 

 parts of Sicily; a fmall ri\er, now choal.ed 

 up, near I'alci mo, u a-- called the I'npyms, 

 probai>ly froiii the number of that Ipccics 

 of plant which grew in its bed : the fame 

 name was alfo given to various rivulets in 

 the illand. ]t is, however, I belie\e, 

 moll conmion in the neighbourhood of 

 Syracufe, where a Sicilian has cliablillied 

 a fmall manufaciory of that article, more 

 indeed to gratify tiie willies of the curi- 

 ous, than to reap any itnihediate prolit. 

 The texture is not fo fme as in the Egyp- 

 tian or eallern manul'cripts, which cxift 

 in the libraries of Paris. This may be 

 owiiic, ))robably, to the method of j)rc- 

 paration, and not to any ditYercnce in the 

 plant. 



" The Papyri arc joined together, and 

 fonn one roll, on-eacii (lieet of whi(;h the 

 characteis are jiaintcd, lian'lin>: out in a 

 fpecies of bus reliif, and lingly to be road 

 with the grcateft cafe. As there are no 

 flops, a flifllcuky however is found in 

 joining the letters, in making out the 

 words, and in difcovering the feul'e of the 

 phrafc. The manuferipts «erc found in 

 a chamber of an excavated houfe, in the 

 ancient llercuhmeinw, to the number of 

 about 1800, a confidcrable part of «liich 

 are in a ftate to be miroUeil. You mull 

 be acr|uaintcd that licrcnlaneum was 

 buried for the mod part under a iTiower 

 of hot allies. The mainifcrii'ts were froia 

 the heat reduced to a ftate of tinder, or. 



