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feem to have been beams or joifts of floors ; tho’ they 
are now little more than black dud ; and where they 
are quite moulder’d away, one may plainly fee the 
grain of the wood imprinted in the lava; fo dofe 
did it dick. 
In one paffage, they paflcd by a great many pillars, 
lying about three feet diftant from each other; fup- 
pofed to have compofed a portico, or colonnade. 
They are of brick, plaider’d, and are fluted, and 
painted red. They are broken off, a little above the 
bafe, and are thrown down, in fuch a manner, that 
they now lie in an horizontal pofition, in the midd 
of the lava. 
In another place, they paffed through a fepulchre, 
a little kind of room, about i 2 feet fquare ; which 
was built up, all round, in the fame manner asfloves 
are in our modern kitchens, with niches, like the 
arched holes under fuch doves, for the afhes to fall 
into. In each of thofe niches was a common earthen 
urn or pot, with a cover, full of dry bones, appear- 
ing as if they were worm-eaten. 
In another part, they manifedly went in at the 
door of an houfe ; and faw a window a little on 
one fide of it. They feemed to be in a good large 
room ; but the lava was left all danding in the mid- 
dle of it, and only a paffage made round it, in order 
to get the paintings off from the walls. There have 
been feverai rooms opened, from whence they have 
taken away paintings and mofaic floors, but which 
are now filled up again. Some bits of mofaic floors 
dill remain, and are vifible. 
They palled another place, which is called a bath, 
and has that appearance. It is of a circular form, 
and 
