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I have lately bought a relievo, which, in my opi- 
nion, is very lingular. It is of marble, two palms 
wide, and one high, and reprefents, in a neat tafte, 
a Faun, with a tail, and wings j which latter circum- 
fiance has never occured to my obfervation before. 
He feems to be dancing, and his dog at his feet is in 
the fame attitude. Near him is a tree, to which is 
tied a very elegant open chariot, ( thenfa ) and beneath 
it there appears a table, fuch as are ufed in entertain- 
ments, with a goblet upon it, charged with relievo 
in embolfed work. 
I have likewife, a few days ago, met with a cor- 
nelian, on which was engraved a man cloathed with 
a pallium, and fitting on a chair : before him there 
appeared a lighted furnace, and upon it a velfel of 
glafs, or earthen ware. The artift himfelf held in 
his hand a pair of iron pincers, with handles, to take 
off the veffel from the fire, without burning himfelf. 
They demanded ten fequins for it, which I thought 
too great a price, and therefore did not purchafe it. 
Remarks on the preceding Extra&s ; in a 
Letter to Charles Morton, M. D. Secre- 
tary to the Royal Society : By John Nixon, 
A. M. F. R. S. 
Dear Sir, 
Read March 27, x Beg leave, in purfuance of my pro- 
mife, to tranfmit to you fome ob- 
fervations, which tend, in my opinion, to illuftrate 
the preceding extracts of the Abbate de Venuti’s let- 
ters to me. 
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