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rows of fteps, which are fupported at the angles by 
lions claws. He has a bald head, a long curled 
beard, a hairy body, and naked feet. The drapery 
about him is loofe and flowing : the fore-finger of 
each hand is extended, and all the reft are clofed. 
From his back arifes a branch above the head, where 
it divides into two, which, twilling their foliage 
round it, fall and fpread thcmfelves below the fhoul- 
ders, on each of which a ftand is placed to fix a 
lamp. In the middle, betwixt the extremities of 
thefe two fmall branches, is a bird refembling a par- 
roquet. The whole of this figure is in a very good 
tafte. All thefe things above-mentioned are of 
bronze. 
In November was difcovered a beautiful marble 
Terminus, of Greek workmanfhip, as big as the life. 
It is dreft in a chlamys ; has a young countenance ; 
and the head is covered with a Grecian helmet. 
Many other things have alfo been found, as lamps, 
vafes, and fuch-like, in bronze. And we have often 
met with paintings. If any farther difcoveries are 
made, which are remarkable, you may depend on 
being informed of them. 
At prefent my time is much taken up, in a work 
extremely difficult and tedious ; which is this : When 
the theatre was firft difcovered, there were found in 
it, among other things, feveral horfes in bronze, 
larger than the life 5 but all of them bruifed, and 
broken into many pieces. From this fad condition 
they are not yet reftored. But his majefty having 
exprefled a particular defire to fee that effe&ed, if 
poffible, with regard to one of them, I refolved to 
attempt it > and accordingly have fet about it. 
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