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plow’d over Time out of Mind, the major Part of it is 
ruin’d and imperfed. Belides many Fragments of it, 
we had only the Pleafure of viewing one Piece entire, 
which was 30 Foot long and 6 broad ; and this was ex- 
treamly pretty, the Colours lively, the Pattern or Figure 
finely defign’d, as you will fee by the Drawing, which 
is exadly taken. {See the Fig .) There are only 3 Colours, 
white, red. and blue ; but of the middlemoft or moft 
beautiful Part of it, which is but 9 Foot long and 3 
broad, the white and red is Double in Quantity to the 
blue. In the outermoft Part or Verge of the Work, 
there is no Variety of Colour, but ’tis entirely blue ; 
and that made of much larger Squares than the reft. 
On the Eaft and Weft Sides this was 6 Foot broad, on 
the North but 3. The red is formed out of Roman 
Bricks , feveral Fragments of which we found about 
the Work; the white Colour is made of the common 
Lime-ftone of our Country; the blue, of the Stone 
that comes from Benyngton towards Newark , 5 Miles 
from this Place : And thefe Colours wear welt toge- 
ther, and produce a good Effed. We found in digging, 
feveral Parts of the Foundations of the Walls that 
terminated this Room, and feemingly Foundations of 
other Rooms adjacent, which Foundations were made 
of the common white Stone of the Country fet on Edge 
Side by Side, with here and there a Bit of Roman Brick. 
The Building was plac’d parallel with the Quarters of 
the Heavens. They found in digging, fome human 
Bones, and I took many Bones of a Hand, which pro- 
bably belong’d to fome unfortunate Perfon kill’d in the 
Ruins, or when the Houfe was demoftfhed. 
After this Ihort Defcription of the Work, take this 
Account of the O economy of the Roman Times, in 
3 this 
