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than to the Galleries of the Catacofribsj 

 carry'd under ground, they fay 20 Miles 

 from the City in fome places, and no Body 

 knows how far in others, and to that van: 

 number of Chambers that go off them. Thus 

 therefore the Chriftians finding them in a 

 ftate of neglecl laid up the Bodies of their 

 Dead in them and perhaps when the Per- 

 lecution was hot, conceaFd themfelves and 

 kept little feparate Aflemblies in their Cham* 

 bers. At laft the Empire turning Chriftians^ 

 they fell again in the old ftate of negledt, in 

 whtich they continued till upon the reading of 

 I have forgot what Author that makes men- 

 tion of them, they came to be look'd into 

 and fearch'd. What I have writ relates to 

 the Catacombs of lS.ome^ thofe of Naples are 

 a quite other thing, of which f er next. I am, 

 5/r, 



Tour mo (I humble Servant^ 

 Marfeilles, Aug. 22* 



1700. J. Monro. 



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