Royal Society. 483 
difcovered it, he bared a little thereof, and it lay about a foot 
and a half in the ground 5 and upon digging in feveral places, 
he found it about d or 7 yards broad, and as many long, if nc^t 
more 5 M. dela ^rymey having got a fpade, fhovel, and broom, 
fell to work, and with a great deal of trouble (the ground being 
very hard) he bared about a yard and a half Iquare, by which 
means he caft up feveral pieces of Rjotnan tile, the bone of the 
hinder leg of an ox or cow broken in two, and feveral pieces of 
plaifter painted red and yellow, which feemed to have been the 
cornifh at the foot of fome altar, or elle perhaps of Ibme part of 
the buildings and he obferved that feveral large ftones in their 
fall (when the building over this pavement was dellroyed) had 
broken and lodged themielves in the pavement; then having 
fwept the thus cleared fpace very clean, the pavement looked ex- 
ceeding beautiful and pretty 5 and one could not imagine, that 
fuch mean ftones could make fuch beautiful work ; being nothing 
but fmall fquare bits of brick, (late and cauk, fet in curious fi- 
gures and good order, and only of three colours, red, blue and 
white; feveral whole rows of red, blue and white on the outfide 
of the fiTialler work, confifted of pieces twice as long as any of 
the reft; the materials that thefe Imall ftones are fet in, is a floor 
of lime and fand, and not plaifter, which floor is fo rotten and 
decayed with time, that the little ftones, ^c. are eafily dug up. 
The whole pavement confifts of circles, quadrangles and feveral 
irregular figures, with rows of the aforefaid ftones, red, blue 
and white, in fome of thefe circles there were urns; in others 
flowers ; and in others again interchangeable knots, according to 
the fancy of the workman. 
Ohfervations in Italy ; by Dr. Peter Sylvefter. Phil. TranH 
N° 2(^4. p. 527. 
DR. SyheJJer took notice in the univerfity of Somnta of the 
following infcription made in commendation of the famous 
D. O. M. 
VIRTUTl & famae in asvum manfuras inclyti viri 
M. Malpighii, medicinze profeflbris celeberrimi, utraque 
artiftarum univerfitas P. anno falutis, 1583. 
And a little lower. 
Miraris breve lemma ? Nomen ingens ornari negat ; eft fatis 
referri; juflumcaetcra tacere marmor j omnis Malpighium loque- 
tur *etas. 
P p P 2 The 
