Notice of Sketches of Naval Li 2. 331 
is red; the lower, white and pearly : pearls are — found 
in them, sometimes of large size, but colored: I hav. e some, 
however, that approach ie true pearl, in color. The sea-horse 
that of a horse: it has no fins: but has the power of coiling up 
the lower eo of the aa and, I suppose, mo ves by throwing 
able 
roe 'N autilus, pets or Argo,) a beautiful thing, is also 
found here. The natives work vad smaller shells into handsome 
mantle ornaments: I have seen Neptune in his car, with trident 
and sea-horses, and they are now making for me, two urns, with 
flowers ; all of marine substances.’’—Vol. I. pp. 80—3. 
The aataeombs of the island of Milo are interesting if 
for no other reason, on account of their containing lachry- 
matories wade of glass 
“ The catacombs are mostly single chambers, cut in the soft 
a 
paved with large flags, and under these flags, in a rectangular 
cavity, just large enough to contain a fuil grown person, the bod 
was deposited. Some consist of a succession of chambers, like 
this. There are no inscriptions; but among the decayed bones, 
re found coins, ornaments of gold and precious way for the 
ears, lamps, lachrymatory vases, with uantities of glass, 
and copper vessels — 
ing, at sta 
seasons, to weep over the dead: the lachrymatories (long slen- 
der vessels,) it is ry wares: ere used a times, to catch 
their tears. One of the first visitors we had on board our ship, 
the discoveries in. Pompeii: this is the first I have heard of, 
among the Greeks. The vessels discovered are generally flat 
at the bottom, and four inches over: they rise one inch, of this 
