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translating them from the Greek. There are two persons constantly employed 

 in unrolling other volumes. 



In the month of April were found 2 fine busts of women, the subjects un- 

 known. Also a young stag, of excellent workmanship, on a base. The height 

 of it, from the feet to the top of the head, is 3i palms. Likewise its compa- 

 nion, but broken in many pieces. In May, a small young hog. In October, 

 a female statue, of middling workmanship. Also a Silenus, a palm and 3 inches 

 high, standing on a square base, raised on 3 rows of steps, supported at the 

 angles by lions' claws. He has a bald head, a long curled beard, a hairy body, 

 and naked feet. The drapery about him is loose and flowing: the fore finger of 

 each hand is extended, and all the rest are closed. From his back arises a 

 branch above the head, where it divides into 2, which, twisting their foliage 

 round it, fall and spread themselves below the shoulders, on each of which a 

 stand is placed to fix a lamp. In the middle, between the extremities of these 

 2 small branches, is a bird resembling a parroquet. The whole of this figure is 

 in a very good taste. All these things above-mentioned are of bronze. In 

 November was discovered a beautiful marble Terminus, of Greek workmanship, 

 as large as the life. It is dressed in a chlamys; has a young countenance; and 

 the head is covered with a Grecian helmet. Many other things have also been 

 found; as lamps, vases, and such-like, in bronze. And we have often met with 

 paintings. 



IJ[. Of some Trees discovered Under-ground on the Shore at Mount's Bay in 

 Cornwall. By the Rev. Mr. William Borlase, F. R. S. p. 5 1 . 



In the said place one day Mr. B. found the roots of a tree, branching off from 

 the trunk in all directions. And, on further search, about 30 feet to the west 

 found the roots of another tree, but without any trunk, though displayed in the 

 same horizontal manner as the first. Fifty feet farther to the north was the 

 body of an oak, 3 feet in diameter, reclining to the east. On digging about it, 

 it was traced 6 feet deep under the surface; but its roots were still deeper than 

 they could pursue them. "Within a few feet distance was the body of a willow, 

 l-j- foot in diameter, with the bark on; and one piece of a large hazel branch, 

 with its bark on. What the firsts trees were, was not easy to distinguish, there 

 being not a sufficiency remaining of the first, and nothing but roots of the second, 

 both pierced with the teredo, or augur-worm. Round these trees was sand, 

 about 10 inches deep, and then the natural earth, in which these trees had for- 

 merly flourished. It was a black marsh earth, in which the leaves of the j uncus 

 were entirely preserved from putrefaction. These trees were 300 yards within full 

 sea-mark; and, when the tide is in, have at least 12 feet of water above them; 

 and doubtless there are the remains of other trees farther towards the south. 



