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considerable, how far it might answer in preventing a syncope, or for other pur- 

 poses, that a fit quantity of a properly adapted injection be left undischarged, 

 after tapping, which might be either absorbed or drawn off at proper intervals, 

 as the strength of the patient might admit. 



LXVII. On the late Discoveries of Antiquities at Herculaneum, ^c. in Two 

 Letters from Camillo Paderni, Keeper of the Museum Herculanei. Trans- 

 lated from the Italian by Robert fVatson, M. D.^ F, R. S- Letter Isl, Dated 

 at Naples, Ju7ie 28, 1755. p. 49O. 



In April last, a little beyond La Torre della Nunziata, where stood the an- 

 cient Pompeii, in digging near the amphitheatre, there was discovered a marble 

 capital of the Corinthian order. On making further trials, there were found 2 

 pilasters of white marble, about ]0 feet high, fluted on every side, with capitals 

 and bases of the Corinthian order. On one side of these pilasters have been 

 found a series of 9 other pilasters, about 7 feet high, equally wrought Nyith the 

 larger : there were likewise 5 other pilasters on the side of the other great one, 

 making in all 16; which are all of one piece, exclusive of the capital and the 

 base, except one, which is composed of 1 pieces. They were all excellently 

 preserved, and were standing ; forming a portico before a building. All the 

 buildings, which are in Pompeii, are of the same constitution with those of 

 Herculaneum and Stabiae ; that is, of one story. The portico is continued on 

 the sides, but the pilasters are not of marble, but of brick covered with stucco, 

 and coloured with green, and are not fluted like those of marble. One only of 

 the sides is yet undiscovered, and we must wait to see the side opposite to the 

 front, and the rooms within, to be able to speak decisively. 



The front was all painted in the grotesque manner ; but little, and that ill 

 preserved, remains. There were no ornaments of stucco, or marble ; the walls 

 indeed were coloured, and there were some small* niches formed in the walls, 

 each of which corresponded to one of the pilasters, and consequently there were 

 18 in number. In several of them were found certain figures, some of earth, 

 others of marble, in this order ; first was placed one of marble, then one of 

 earth : those of marble were 9 small Hermae, among which there is a Hercules 

 crowned with oak, some satyrs, fawns and Bacchantes. Two of them are of 

 the old red, and the other of the old yellow marble, and are of an indifferent 

 style. Those of the baked earth consist of 4 figures. The first is a Barbarian 

 king, who stands erect with his right hand under his chin in a pensive manner, 

 and wears his chlamys clasped with a fibula on his right shoulder. But what 

 makes this figure the more curious is, that the whole body forms a vase, on the 

 back of which there is a handle to hold it by. Behind the head there is a little 

 tube, through which water or some other liquor was poured in, and the mouth 



