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Serapis. As this place feemed greatly to merit the 
attention of the curious in antiquity, we procured a 
plan of it, drawn by a native, who has free accefs 
to it ; and (if I thought it would be acceptable to 
that learned Society, of which I have the honour to 
be a member) the faid plan fhould wait upon them, 
accompanied with fome obfervations upon it by, 
S I R, 
Your moft obedient, 
London, Feb. 24. humble Servant, 
J 757* 
John Nixon. 
P. S. A long room is defigned to be fitted up in the 
King’s palace at Portici, for the reception of all 
the antiquities found at Herculaneum, &c. This 
apartment will be lighted by thirteen windows 
on the fide towards the Cortile, and adorned with 
forty columns, partly of verde antique, partly of 
alabafter with brownifh veins, and other beautiful 
marbles, found in divers parts of the King’s do- 
minions. Between every two of thefe columns 
will be placed a group, ftatue, or butt. The 
compartments in the walls will contain the an- 
cient paintings. The other curiofities are to be 
deposited in cafes made for that purpofe ; and the 
pavement will coniifi: intirely of the finefi: pieces 
of Mofaic work, that have been found in Her- 
culaneum, or any places within the Neapolitan 
Rate. 
XIV.. 
