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intimated above. For it is furnifhed with feveral 
ftone cifterns, whole inward dimenfions are propor- 
tioned to the ordinary fize of an human body ; and 
near them is a fpring, out of which the water was 
taken up, and poured into a bafon hollowed out in 
the fide of the wall : from thence it ran along in a 
groove or channel cut in the ends of the cifterns, to 
be let out upon the perfons bathing in them, accord- 
ing to their pleafure, or as occafion lhould require. 
So likewife in the temple of Venus (as it is com- 
monly called) near Baias, there is a large chamber 
containing feveral ftone feats for wafhing, with little 
cells contiguous to it for undrefiing before, and 
anointing the body and drefling afterwards. 
I have but one more particular to add concerning 
the apartment in the north-weft angle of the temple, 
viz. that, when it was cleared of its rubbifh, there was 
found in a niche in one of its ftdes a male and female 
figure naked, and in the moft flagrant aft of natural 
lewdnefs. It is now (as we were informed) in a 
private room in the palace at Portici, nor can be feen 
without the King’s fpecial permiflion. In the fame 
place, probably, may ftand the ftatue of a fatyr in 
an unnatural adtion with a goat, which was found at 
Herculaneum, and is, they fay, of exquiflte fculp- 
ture, but concealed in the palace above-mentioned 
with the fame ftridt care as the former. 
Having thus viewed the feveral chambers in the 
exterior parts of the building, it is requifite (in order 
to a regular profecution of our defign) to return to 
the grand entrance. And here, pafling thro’ the 
corridor above defcribed, we come to a fquare court 
or atrium paved with large flabs of white marble 
ftreaked 
