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I come now to mention another opening, diftant 
from that, which leads to the theatre, by which they 
have made a way into fome houfes. Here they feem 
to have dug infinitely more than about the theatre ; 
for one may ramble, as in a labyrinth, for, at leaf:, half 
a mile. I cannot be very particular in defcribing the 
many things, that have been dug out of either of the 
two places i but the mod noted you fhall have, as 
far as my memory will permit, befides thofe, which 
I took down in my pocket-book on the fpot. The 
firfi; were many parts of broken horfes, with part of 
a triumphal car or chariot, all of gilt bronze ; and 
which, they fay, was placed over one of the gates of 
the theatre. 
The next were two equeftrian ftatues, which were 
found on each fide of one of the faid gates, and, they 
fuppofe, fronting a flreet, that led to the theatre. 
Thofe, I was told, were ereCted in honour of the 
two Balbi’s, father and fon, as having been great be- 
nefactors to the Herculaneans. One of thefe ftatues 
is fo broken, that it cannot be repair’d ; the other, 
which happen’d to be better preferved, is extremely 
well repair d, and is fet up under the piazza in the 
gate -way of the king’s palace at Portici. On the 
front of the pedeftal is feen the following infcription, 
as it was found 3 
M.NOMIO MF 
BALBO 
PR. PRO COS 
HERCVL ANENSES 
It 
