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However, this caution does not Teem to have been fo 
univerfally obferved, but that fometimes, viz. when 
the party confided of ladies, it was (I prefume, for 
a reafon greatly to their honour) fuperfed. d. Thus, 
in one of the fil'd paintings found at Herculaneum, 
and now in the royal apartments at Portici, we fee 
a young female figure exhibited, as playing at this 
game, with one or more of the tali lying upon the 
back part of her hand, while the red appear as 
having fallen off from thence towards the door. 
II. 
A rule with four joints, each of which contained 
about 5 inches 9-tenths of our meafure. I think 
there was another in two parts, which anfwered to 
the fame proportion. 
III. 
A weight, infer ibed on one fide e m e, and on 
the other habebis. 
IV. 
A fmall bolla d’oro , which (after that in the late 
Dr. Middleton’s collection, and another prefervtd at 
Rome) is the third known to be extant in Europe. 
As this ornament was worn by fo great a number of 
young perfons at Rome, and made of gold, which is 
fo capable of refiding the injuries of the weather, 
moidure, £?c. one cannot but wonder at the extreme 
fcarcity of thefe monuments in the cabinets of the 
curious. The mod probable way of accounting for 
this (according to (17) Dr. Middleton) is, that the 
(17) Germ. Ant. Mon. p. 38. 
value 
