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Columns, which were brought up : For I fpoke to 
an old Man, living next Door to the Well, who told 
me, he was one of thole employed in digging there j 
and that they began 27 Years ago, and worked Five 
Y ears : That the bed Part of the Duke di Belbofi’s 
prelent Eftate was found there ; the moft principal 
Things were. Two Columns of Oriental Alabafter, 
which were fold for 50,000 Ducats: That they had 
found alfo many fine Statues, the bed of which were 
fold, and fome he had fent to Lorraine. I faw Five, 
which they have put up in the Market-place, all 
clothed Figures, one in a Confular Habit, the others 
Women : They are all well dreft, and in a fineTafte, 
but want the Heads. In the Duke’s Villa , which is 
near and by the Sea- fide, are Two others intire, both 
Women 5 one feems to be a Livia: Alfo the Frag- 
ments of a naked Figure, which wants the Head and 
Arms, of a good Style. Thefc, with fome Orna- 
ments and Fragments of various forts of Marbles, are 
all that is to be feen there, of what has been dug 
up. 
Having given you fome Account of what is taken 
out of this lubterraneous City, 1 fhall now proceed 
to what remains in it, and our Journey down to it. 
At our coming to the W ell, which is in a fmall Square, 
furroundcd with mifcrable Houfes, filled with mife- 
rable ugly old Women, they foon gathered about 
us, wondering what brought us thither } but when 
the Men who were with us, broke away the paltry Ma- 
chine with which they ufed to draw up fmall Buckets 
of Water, I thought we fhould have been ftoned by 
them : Till, perceiving one more furious than the 
reft, whom we found to be Badrona of the Well, 
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