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but when in repair must have afforded excellent accommodation 

 for an India garrison, who generally prefer a covered shed or ve- 

 randa to a close room. This colonnade, half a mile in length, 

 resembles the porticos in front of the barracks at the ancient city 

 of Pompeia; where the soldiers' names are written in a rude man- 

 ner on the walls, and after a lapse of seventeen hundred years are 

 still legible. The barracks at Pompeia surround a large court, with 

 a portico in front of their sleeping rooms; their appearance in- 

 stantly reminded me of the fortifications at Dhuboy; and the 

 villa and gardens without the gate of Pompeia, as well as many 

 objects both there and in Herculaneum, were completely oriental. 

 No town in India, nor any other part of the globe, can create 

 those peculiar sensations which absorb the spectator when he be- 

 holds two cities brought to light after being buried near two thou- 

 sand years; the one under a torrent of liquid fire, the other over- 

 whelmed by a mountain of burning ashes and volcanic produc- 

 tions. Herculaneum still remains in a subterranean state; but at 

 Pompeia, cleared of ashes, pumice-stones and cinders, with the 

 plantations and vineyards which during a lapse of ages had pro- 

 gressively covered them, the astonished traveller beholds temples, 

 theatres, houses and tombs, again restored to day, and on a level 

 with the surrounding plain! The massive covering having been re- 

 moved, the modern visitor walks through the streets, visits the 

 temples, ascends the amphitheatres, and enters the houses, shops, 

 and porticos of the ancient Romans, with the same facility as when 

 they were first finished. In some he finds the furniture not yet 

 removed; in a few the skeletons of their inhabitants still remain. 



