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to keep them (Icddy, till the Mortar they were fet in 
might dry. This pav’d Place was fearcht 6 or 8 Foot 
every way ; it was all cover’d with a Coat about two 
Inches thick, of Allies and large Coals of Wood : on 
that lay confufedly large pieces of the Rudus or coarfc 
Mortar aboveniention’d, and lamps of the in all 
refpeds like thofe on the Pavement, and cemented as 
They were. There were moreover mingled with the Allies 
many large Iron Nails, bigger, but not quire fb long, as 
thofe we call double Tenns ; fome Hooks for Doors to 
(wing on ; feveral fmall pieces of earthen Ware; fome 
like bits of Urns ; fome of a fine yellow Clay ; fome 
red, thin, neatly wrought and adorn’d with Flowers; 
and laftly part of a Human Skull, and pieces of Bones 
near it; which Bones were not inclos’d in any Vellel, but 
lay loofe; they were difcolour’d like thofe I have feen in 
Urns ; fo that the Body they belong’d to, might perifli 
by the fame Flames, that thefe Buildings were deftroy’d 
by. There was no Infcripnon found either on Stone or 
Brick ; no Statue, or other Figure, fave thofe on the 
Bricks mention’d 5 neither were there any Coins met 
with there. But fomeching more than a Furlong North- 
Weft of theft Works, near three Years fince, there was 
a Malt Houft, and near two Y'ears fince a Dwelling- 
Houft eretfted ; in digging the Foundations for the firft, 
there was a Coin of Pojihumus ; and in the Ground dug 
for the laft, a piece of Cofiflamines founcT ; both which 
1 fend with this, that the inferiptions and Reverfes may 
be incerced if neceflary. 
From the nearnefs of the Bath, it may reafonably be 
concluded that the Pavement was neither a part of a 
Temple, nor for a place of Juliice: the continuation of 
the Foundations every way to be traced from it, and 
what was Jaft diftover’d, are rather ^n Argument it was 
an Apartment of a magnificent Palace. 
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