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cularly one 15 Feet wide, and Eight high: It confifts 
of the Front of a large Temple, with Buildings of 
the fame Architedure projeding on each Side, in the 
Nature of the Wings of a Houfe. There are Houfes 
alfo adjoining to this Temple, with Windows divided 
into Squares, which Squares are painted of a greyifh 
Colour : I will not pretend to fay, this is to represent 
Glafs, becaufe I believe we have no Authority for it 
in any Author of Antiquity : But I tell you the Fad 
as it is, and among the Virtuofi of your Acquaintance 
you may find out the Meaning. I mu ft obferve to 
you, that in this Architedure the Perfpedive is very 
exad; which one may judge of with a good deal of 
Certainty in thofe Wings which projed. The Archi- 
tedure is very rich and noble : The Clair-Obfcur 
likewife in the other Pidures, is well underftoodj 
particularly in the ‘Pomona , where there are Six 
Figures, which are very agreeably grouped, and the 
Eye is immediately pleafed and repofed. They have 
dug up a good many Statues, but not above One or 
Two that are tolerably good. There is, however, 
a per fed Buft of Agrippina , Mother of Nero , which 
was found (landing in its Niche : It is as clean as if 
juft finifhed, has not the leaft Damage, and is, in the 
judgment of every body, as well as myfelf, equal to 
moft things of that kind in the World : For my own 
Part, I fhould not (lick to fay, it is altogether as fine 
a Portrait as the Caracalla of the Farnefe. There 
arc Two Equeftrian Statues in Bronze, broken all to 
Pieces, but which, by the Parts, one may judge to 
be as big as the Marcus Aurelius : They are foon to 
be put together. They have found feveral antique 
Rings, with Cameos and Intaglids fet in them? a 
Fork, 
