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KOMAN EOADS UNDER WATEE. 



[Ch. XXX. 



signs of a like subsidence round the margin of a bay once so 

 studded with buildings as the Bay of Baise. Accordino-ly 



memorials 



About a 



NW. of the temple of Serapis, and about 500 feet 



The 



from the shore^ are the ruins of a temple of Neptune 

 others of a temple of the I^^ymphs, now under water. 

 columns of the former edifice stand erect in five feet water 

 their upper portions just rising to the surface of the sea. 

 The pedestals are doubtless buried in the sand or mud • so 

 that, if this part of the bottom of the bay should hereafter 

 be elevated^ the exhumation of these temples mioiit take 

 place after the manner of that of Serapis. Both these 

 buildings probably .participated in the movement which 

 raised the Starza ; but either they were deeper under water 

 than the temple of Serapis^ or they were not raised up again 

 to so great a height. There are also two Eoman roads under 

 water in the bay, one reaching from Puzzuoli to the Lucrine 

 Lake, which may still be seen, and the other near the castle of 



(N- 



(N. 



The ancient mole, too, of 



a considerable height of the arches ; whereas Brieslak justly 



must 



have reached the surface before the springing of the arches:^ 



lenomena 



mole 



feet above the level at which 



it once stood, it is still evident that it has not yet been 

 restored to its original position. 



A modern writer also reminds us, that these effects are not 

 so local as some would have us to believe ; for on the opposite 

 side of the Bay of Naples, on the Sorrentine coast, which, 

 as well as Puzzuoli, is subject to earthquakes, a road, with 

 fragments of Eoman buildings, is covered to some depth by 

 the sea. In the island of Capri, also, which is situated some 

 way out at sea, in the opening of the Bay of Naples, one of 

 the palaces of Tiberius is now covered with water, f 



^ Voj. dans la Campanie, tome ii. 1829. When I visited Puzzuoli, and 



p. 162. 



arrived at the above conclusions, I knew 



t Mr. Forbes, Physical Notices of the nothing of Mr. Forbes's observations, 

 Bay of Naples. Ed. Journ. of Sci., which I first saw on my return to Eng- 

 No. II., new series, p. 280. October land the year following. 





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