ANTIQUITIES. 



365 



>\ pension to the earle 

 of Arlington, 2001. 

 per ann. 



A pension to the duke 

 ofMonmoiith,600Ol. 

 per aim. 



A pension to tlic lord 

 Obryen, iOOl. per 

 ann. 



A pension to Henr)- 

 Savile, 5001. per 

 ann. 



A donative to the earle 

 of St. Albans, in 

 trust for sir Rich. 

 Talbotsonn 



A pension to James 

 Hamilton 



More to the earle of 

 Oxon and his bdy, 

 2001. per ann, dure- 

 ing their lives, pay- 

 able out of the first 

 fruits 



£. s.d. 



1,400 



42,000 



700 



3,500 



U,000 

 2,450 



20,000 



The totall summe is 791,255 9 4 



/IccouHt of the remains of Pompeii 

 and Hirculaneum ; from Gray's 

 Tour through Germany, i^c. 



A T our first slight descent at the 

 ■^i^ entrance, we see the soldiers* 

 quarters, with the names of some 

 ancient Romans, inscribed abo%-e 

 seventeen centuries ago, on the 

 walls ; the platform and proscenia 

 of two theatres : some rooms of a 

 private house, with a human skull 

 that once was animated with the 

 features of Roman genius ; the im- 

 pression of a foot sunk in yielding 

 lava ; the perfect form of the tem- 

 ple of Isis, built of stuccoed brick ; 

 its columiii, its altars ^ the csna- 



bulum of the priests, in which the 

 bones of some fish were found ; the 

 slaughter-house with the still-exist- 

 ing ring to which the generous and 

 struggling victim v/as tied, and the 

 canal by vihich the blood was con- 

 ducted away. 



If, ascending by the Appian way> 

 we proceed across the vineyard to a 

 suburb of the town, we behold two 

 narrow streets, each about ten feet 

 wide, entirely cleared : we have a 

 perspective view of both at the same 

 time diverging obliquely from a 

 fountain at a sharp angle. We see 

 the rows of houses on each side un- 

 roofed, indeed, and with walls di- 

 lapidated, and presenting the api 

 p:arance of buildings half destroy- 

 ed and cleared away after a fire. 

 The pavement, the narrow trotoir, 

 and the channels worn by the 

 wheels, are still perfect. We en- 

 ter into the houses, which, except- 

 ing one distinguished by its colon- 

 nade and double stair-case, are very 

 small, and generally built with a 

 portico enclosing a court, into which, 

 fountains were usually introduced. 

 The apartments, particularly those 

 of the surgeon's house, where chi- 

 rurgical instruments and manusci-ipt 

 rolls were found, as also those sup-, 

 posed to have belonged to the ves- 

 tals, are painted with figures, many 

 of which have been removed, but 

 a (ew still remain and look beauti- 

 ful, when their colours are refreshen- 

 ed by water thrown upon them. 

 In some rooms are the remains of 

 Mosaic pavement. The utensils, 

 now used by soap-boilers werefound 

 at the house of one of that business. 

 The stain of a heated cup is still 

 visible on the front slab of a tavern ; 

 and the indecent symbol of a bro- 

 thel bears testimony to the gross 

 manners of the people v/ho vrere 



destroyed 



