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LETTER V. 123 



" bitants feem to have had fome difmal warn- 

 ing to forfake it, for in the digging of above 

 a mile and a half which they compute the fe- 

 veral Windings and Turnings are, they have as 

 yet found but one dead Body. In my next I 

 will give you an account of the Paintings and 

 Statues they have taken for the King's ufe, 

 *' and add what may have flipped out of my me- 

 " mory at prefent. In the mean time, &cJ' 



10. None of my acquaintance who have taken 

 the polite Tour of Hollaiid^ Germany^ and Italy ^ 

 ever fo much as named this fubterraneous Town 

 to me : I have alfo confulted Maxi?7nlia?i MiJJm-y 

 and as he makes not the leaft mention of it, fo I 

 muft prefume it was not difcovered till after he 

 had publifhed his Travels in four Odavo Vo- 

 lumes in the Year of our Lord 1714 : However 

 he quotes Dio7t Caffius^ and tells us from him ; 

 That the thundering Noife of an Eruption was 

 heard as far as Rome^ and Egypt ; That the Towns 

 of Pompeia and Hercidmia were fwallowed up • 

 That moft of the Inhabitants, who at that unhap- 

 py minute were affifting at the publick Spedla- 

 cles were buried in their Ruins ; and that it was 

 alfo then, that the ancient Plinius and Ceffius 

 BaJJius^ whofe rafli Curiofity emboldened them 

 to advance too near the Mouth of Fefuvius^ fuf- 

 fered the like fate. He is of opinion moreover. 

 That Herculana flood formerly where Tinr di 

 Otta^jo is now fituate, which I fuppofe has not fo 



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