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and feems to have been made to contain water. Here 
were found fome marble and fome fiatues. And a 
little way diflant from this is a Hone Hair-cafe ; but 
what it leads to, is not yet known. 
Then they pafled by a well, built round with a 
parapet-wall on the top, and an arch turned over it ; 
whereby the lava has been prevented from choak- 
ing it up j and it is now a good well. 
Jn another place, they walked, for about 30 feet, 
in a Hrait line, along the fide of a Hone building, 
luppofed to be a temple. It has two very dee'p Heps 
all along the bottom ; and then an upright flat fur- 
face, about 4 or 5 feet high ; and then a narrow 
cornice ; and feems to be the bails or pedeflal for a 
colonnade of pillars. In one part of it they have 
begun to dig, above the cornice, and And no inter- 
ruption ; which adds to the probability of its being 
the fpace between the pillars. However, none are 
yet difcovered ; and it will be fome time, before they 
can be able to determine what it is. 
In another place is juH fuch another building of 
the like fort, but of a circular form. This they have 
but juH begun to find. 
In fome places the company faw little bits of paint- 
ings on the walls ; but they are taken away prefently 
after they are found. 
It is fuppofed, that the workmen are at prefent 
got no farther than the fuburbs of the town, in this 
part of their fearch; having met with no grand 
buildings, unlefs the two lafl-mention d fliould prove 
to be fuch. 
But the theatre (which is mention’d by the 
writer of the letter as moH worth feeing) is about 
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