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a beautiful wall of cut stone, the joinings of which are Sa 

 close, and the cement so perfect, that it has the appearance 

 of a solid mass. The alley which serves as an entry i» 

 twelve palms in length and ten in breadth ; it leads to a 

 court, the walls of which are covered with stucco of diffe- 

 rent colours. The capitals and cornices are in very Hue 

 preservation. 1 remarked on them a large rose, which b 

 a master-piece of elegance and design. All the chanibers 

 are ornamented with beautiful paintings on a red, blue, or 

 yellow ground. They exhibit small exceedingly delicate 

 columns, with tlowers, candelabra, and other ornaments 

 in the best taste. On the left arc two apartments which 

 in all probability were those of the master and mistress of 

 the house. 



*' The painter had given full scope to his imagination ia 

 the composition of all these pieces, which I beheld with 

 inexpressible pleasure. Nothing can be more attracting 

 than a dance of masked personages; nothing more elegant 

 than a small bird pecking at a basket of figs. In the mid- 

 dle of the court is a cistern, or impluviurn of the Romans. 

 On a marble pedestal is a young Hercules seated on a small 

 fawn of bronze. These two pieces, one of which may 

 weigh about twenty and the other forty pounds, are of the 

 finest workmanship. From the mouth of the fawn water 

 fell into a beautiful conch of Grecian marble. Behind the 

 pedestal was a table, the feet of which, of antique yellow, 

 represent the claws of an eagle. These works have also 

 been conveyed to the Muscuu). A lateral corridor, on the 

 right hand, conducts to a second court, whiclx was sur- 

 rounded by a portico, as appears by octangular columns 

 coated with stucco." 



Near the town of Ficsole, not far from Florence, a beau- 

 tiful amphitheatre has been also discovered. The earth iias 

 already been cleared awav from the greater part of It, and 

 it appears that it was capable of containing at least 30,0U0 

 spectators. 



VACCINATION. 



We hear that Dr. .Tenner is enoaged in collecting reports 

 from the differcut states of Europe, ;u)d from many of the 

 yther quarters of ihc globe, respecting the effects of vaccine 

 inoculation on the mortality occasioned by the small -pox. 

 In several of the largest cities on the continent, we are in- 

 formed that he has already received the pleasing intelligence 

 of the small-pox being either nearly or totally subdued. 

 Among them is Vienna. IJut how melancliolv is the re- 

 flection, that while the great and populous cUy of Vienna, 

 which for time iujinemurial had been iubjecied to the in- 

 cessant 



