ii6 LETTER V. 



'\torre di Greco^ and even beyond it. Before I 

 give fuch a defcription of thefe Remains as I 

 am able, it may firfl: be neceffary to acquaint 

 you, that for fear of Accidents, the Paflages 

 they have dug out, which have been quite at 

 a venture, are feldom higher or broader than 

 is neceffary for a Man of my fize to pafs along 

 conveniently. This is the caufe that you have 

 but an imperfed: View of things in general ; 

 and as thefe narrow PalTages are quite a Laby- 

 rinth, there is no gueffing at whereabouts you 

 are, after two or three turnings. 

 3. "At the further end of Fortieth towards 

 T^orre di Greco ^ you defcend by above fifty 

 Stone Steps, which convey you over the Wall 

 of a Theater, lined with white Marble, which 

 if the Earth and Rubbifli were cleared over it, 

 would, I believe, be found to be very entire : 

 By what is feen of it, I do not imagine it to 

 have been much bigger than one of our ordi- 

 nary Theaters in London^ and that it was a 

 Theater, and not an Amphitheater, appears 

 by a part of the Scene which is plainly to be 

 '' diilinguifhed ; it is, I think, of Stucco, and 

 adorned with Compartments of Grotefque 

 Work, of which, and Grotefque Paintings, 

 there is a great deal fcattered up and down, in 

 the feveral parts of the Town, 



4. -"When 



(C 



cc 



cc 

 cc 



(C 

 (C 



<c 

 c< 

 cc 



(C 



cc 



cc 



cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 

 cc 



