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VIII. An Account Gf the late Dif cover ies of 
Antiquities at Herculaneum ; in an Ex- 
traB of a Letter from Camilio Paderni, 
Keeper of the Herculanean Mufeum, and 
F. R. S. to Thomas Hollis, Efq\ dated 
Naples, Dec. 16, 1756. 
Read Feb. 10, T" T is probable, that the firft volume 
of antique paintings will be publifhed 
at Eafter ; in which there will be fifty copper-plates, 
with obfervations by the academy lately eftablifhed 
here for illuftrating the antiquities. 
Two volumes of the ancient papyrus have been 
unrolled. One treats of rhetoric , and the other is 
upon mujic ; and both are written by the fame au- 
thor, Philodemus. II Signor Canonico Mazzocchi, 
a very learned gentleman of this city, is now tranl- 
lating them from the Greek. There are two perfons 
conftantly employed in unrolling other volumes. 
In the month of April were found two fine bufts 
of women, the fubjedls unknown. Alfo a young 
flag, of excellent workmanfhip, upon a bafe. The 
height of it, from the feet to the top of the head, 
is three palms and a half. Likewife its companion j 
but broken in many pieces ; which however I hope 
to reftore. 
In May, a fmall young hog. 
In October, a female ftatue, of middling work- 
manfhip. Alfo a Silenus, a palm and three, inches 
high, handing upon a fquare bafe raifed upon -three 
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