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to have found them ^ 'tis not to be imagin'd they cou'd 
h ive rnade any ufe of them, at a time when 'twas the 
da^Iy praftice to lay up even the depofitions of the 
Slaves in them ^ fo that either the Chriftians made no 
ufe of them at all, or they never were the burying 
Place of the Slaves* Now as thefe are fuppofitions 
that naturally deftroy one' anot one wciuld count 
it more fafe to follow the taint light of a glimmering 
tradition, than abandon ones felf to thecondud of an 
ignis fat HHs^ that for ought a man knows is adually 
mifleading him, fo I beg leave to call the Teftimony 
of Fejlns P(?mpemsy that may rather be applyed to any 
other thing than to the Galleries of the Catacombs, 
carry 'd under ground, they fay qo miles from the ' City 
in fome places, and no body knows how far in others, 
and to that vaft humber of Chambers that go off them. 
Thus therefore the Chriftians finding th^m'^in a ftateof 
negle<9: laid up the Bodies of their Dead in^tiiem 5 and 
perhaps when the perfecution wasii'ot, cdnceardthem- 
Mves and kept little feparale Affemblesin their Gham- 
beBI At laft the Empire turning Chriftians, they fell 
again in the old ftate of negle(3:, in which they con- 
tinud till upon the reading ' of,^l have forgot what 
Author that makes menti6ii of them, they came to be 
look'd into and fearchy. Wli^t I have writ relates to 
the Catacombs of Rome^ thofe of Naples are a quite o- 
ther thing, of which per next. am, 
a) li; Tour mofl humble Servarn, 
Marfeilles, Aug;'2^. 
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