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a very fenfible Manner ; fo that every Day appeared 
a Month, till I Ihould deliver my Letter, and fee 
what Succefs it would meet with. For had it fuc- 
ceeded, 1 fhouid have gone immediately, and drawn 
thofe Things, which, not being taken care of, though 
of great Curiofity and Erudition, will foon be de- 
iiroyed. 'However, as I could do nothing more, 
and having a great Concern for thofe fine Things in 
a perifhing Condition, I left them a Paper of Di- 
rections how to manage, if they do not obfcrve 
them, the greater Misfortune will be ours, to hear 
that what Time, Earthquakes, and the Ravages of 
the Volcano have fpared, are now deftroyed by thofe 
who pretend to have the Care of them, &c. 
V. Extraffi of a Letter from Mr. George 
Knapton to Mr. Charles Knapton, upon the 
fame Subject. 
I Shall not trouble you with any Account of the 
Curiofities of Naples , they being fo well known, 
only of one which is fomething out of the common 
Way, the antient City of Herculaneum , which was 
fwallowed up by an Earthquake. • It is now under a 
Town called ^Portici , a quarter of a Mile from the 
Sea, at the Foot of Vefuviusi and has no other Road 
to it, but that of the Town-well, which is none of 
the moll agreeable, being in fome Parts very ftreight, 
in others wide, and cut in a moft rude Manner. To- 
ward the Bottom, where you go into the City, it is 
very broad, which they have made fo, to turn the 
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