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might be varied according to the Fancy and Humour of 
great Families. 
This Urn Burial was only in Fafhion amongft the Gen- 
tes Majores : as for the dead Bodies of the Plebeians and 
Slaves, they were generally laid in places where they had 
dug Stone ; and thofe Quarries became Catacombes. The 
Laws prohibited them to bury within a City, unlcfs the 
Bodies were firft reduc’d to Allies. 
I obferv’d in many of the Ruins about Rome and Naples, 
great Stones laid clofe, and wedged very faft with little or 
no Cement, the Bricks towards the middle of a Building, 
were generally of a RhomboiaaL Figure, very Smooth, 
Shining and Hard, laid in Plaifter as firm as Marble. 
Their Mortar was much more durable then ours, as 
appears at this Day by their Aqueducts and Pifcina’s, the 
Cento Camare, and Caligula's Bridge under Water at Bajre. 
Pliny fays, they made ul'e of the Terra Puteolana, but the 
prefent Inhabitants have loft the way of tempering it. 
During my abode at Genoa , Leghorn , Oflia and Civita. 
Vecchia, I obferv’d many Torpedo's or Cramp Fifties, mod 
accurately Anatomized by S, Lorenzini ; plenty of Sphy - 
r&nds, (a Species of Sea Pike, a-kin to the Needle Fifties) 
The Uranofcopus, call’d Eocca in Capo and Prete. The 
Mola or Sun Fifli. The Dentex or Pentalis , Altavelas 
a fort of Paflinaca. The Pefce Baleflra or Caprifcus. The 
Pefce Pet tine or Novacula. The Zygrena or Ballance 
Fifli, as large as the Saw-Fifli or moft Sharks. The 
Scolopax or Trombetta, call’d by our Seamen the Bel- 
lows or Trumpet-Fifli. The Draco Marinus: TheTun- 
ny»Fifh. The Centrina or Pefce Porco. The Aquila. The 
Scorpios Major, with Varieties of Tnrdi in the Markets.' 
But what pleas’d me moft, were fome odd Sea Ani- 
mals, as the Lepus Marinus , (a Species of naked Snail ) 
the H'jflrix Marinos, or Eruca , call’d by the Seamen Pincio, 
with a Brulh hanging out of the Tail, like the Byjfus or 
E e e e z Silk 
