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not make it out ; which, i beiieve, was owing to the 
hid word. The S, tney imagined, fignified a word 
by itfelf ; as it Hands a little wide from the letters, 
that follow, and to which I judge that S ought 
to be joined to form SI LI GO, which fignif.es line 
flour ; of which the bread might be made, with the 
mixture of flour of chich-peaie or vetch, which I 
think E.CISER fignifies. C.RANII I take to be the 
baker’s name. Whether I am right or not, I cannot 
fay j but the man feem’d to approve of the explana- 
tion, and faid he would communicate it to the king. 
There are many other valuable curiofities, which I 
could not fee, being lock’d up in the king’s clolet, 
and private apartments j fuch as medals, intaglia’s, 
and cameo’s. 
I come now to mention fome of the pictures, 
which were found. Some of them were taken out 
of a temple near the theatre, others from the houfes. 
They have all prefer v'd their colours to admiration ; 
which are very lively. They are painted in frefco, 
and were fawed out of the walls, not without a great 
deal of trouble and care j and are now fixed, with 
binding mo.rter, or cement, in Shallow wooden cafes, 
to prevent their breaking, and varniflfd over, to pre- 
ferve their colours. You mufl think, that thefe pic- 
tures are not alike valuable, otherwife than from 
their antiquity ; fome doubtlefs having been done by 
good hands, others by bad, as one fees by the works 
of thofe now-a-days. I fhall therefore only mention 
fome of the heft. There are two large ones, as big 
as life, which were taken out of the temple, which 
I mentioned, and which, as the antiquarians will 
have it, was dedicated to Bacchus 5 proving it by fome 
other 
