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HEE: 
by fome labourers, who, in digging a well, ftruck upon a 
itatue on the benches of the theatre. ny were afterwards 
dug out, and fent to France, by the prince of Elbceuf ; but 
little progrefs was made in the excavations till Charles, in- 
fant of Spain, afcended the Neapolitan throne. i 
unwearied efforts and liberality, a very confiderable part of 
Herculaneum has been explored, and fuch treafures of an- 
tiquity drawn out, as form the mort curious mufeum in the 
world. In order to explore thefe hidden treafures, the king 
had galleries cut to the principal buildings, and caufed the 
extent of one or two of them to be cleare 
theatre is the moft confiderable. 
f the pulpitum, the equeftrian 
y hefe 
fi , 
placed under the porticos of the palace ; and from the great 
rarity of equeitrian ftatues in marble, fays Swinburne (‘T'ra- 
mental appendages of opulence and luxury, but alfo an en- 
tire apartment of the domeftic, mufical, and chirurgical 
inftruments ufed by i 
pans lined with.filver, kettles, cifterns for heating water, and 
i purpofes ;. {fpecimens. 
retaining their form though 
ler ; corn, bread, fifh, oil, wine, an 
a lady’s toilet, furnifhed with combs, thimbles, rings, paint, 
-rin > : 
pre, bi allow the greate(t fhare of merit to Mercu : 
and a fleeping Faun. The fine bronze butts fill feveral rooms, 
been much commend The floors are paved 
few rare medals have been found in thefe 
d ex- 
fill wonderfully 
s are underitood at the firft- glance by 
t 
recian hiftory and 
ought not to eftimate the 
of perfection which the ancients had attai 
painting by thefe fpecimens. It is not probable that the beft 
Of thefe the- 
chilles to play 
attained in the art of hi 
H E.R 
id; but a great number 
were left at Portici. Upon the firft difcovery of them 
g pes were entertained that many eriginal works of 
hebes. 
near Ob 
le 
the ferpents that infefted them, and that feemed to bass 
tiply as fait as they were deftroyed (fee Hypa); the 
third, — hi os 
-ymanthian boar; the 
