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There have been found likewife Eight Rings with 
their Cornelians engraved, and a Bracelet of Gold. 
And they have already taken up about Thirty or 
more Pieces of antient Painting, fome of which are 
exceeding beautiful. 
Sig r Giofeppe gave me a Note of the Pidlures, but 
as it is in Spanijh, and wrote in a very bad Hand, I 
cannot pretend to tranfmit it to you ; but choofe 
rather to defer it, till I have feen them myfelf, which 
fhall be as foon as I have finifhed a Piece of Work I 
am now about, &c. 
SIR, Rome, Feb. 20 . 1740 . 
A S foon as I arrived at Naples, Sig r Giofeppe met 
me, and carried me to Rcrtici. The firft 
thing he (hewed me was the Pi&ures they had dug 
out, fuch as never were feen in our Days ; and were 
you to fee them, you would be furprifed as much as 
I was ; for you would fee Paintings finifhed to the 
highefi- Pitch, coloured to Pcrfcdlion, and as frefh 
as if they had been done a Month ago. 
Particularly one Piece, Eight Palms broad by Nine 
high, the Figures as big as the Life, reprefenting 
The fens after having killed the Minotaur , which is 
wonderfully fine. You fee the Figure of Thefeus 
naked and (landing, which, in my Opinion, cannot 
be more properly rclcmbled to any other thing, than 
the dlntinous of the Belvidera, both for the Attitude 
and Air of the Head. It is drawn and coloured with 
prodigious Elegance. The Greek Boys, who are 
reprefented as returning him Thanks for their Deli- 
verance, feem, for their noble Simplicity, the Work 
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