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The labour of clearing the place Is performed by 
(laves, who work chained together, two and two. 
The curiofities taken out of it are depolited at a 
palace of the king’s, at Portici 3 and fill feveral rooms 
there. 
The fin eft of them are the ftatues. There is an 
exceedingly beautiful one, in white marble, of Balbus, 
on horfeback; which ftands in a portico of the palace, 
and is a moft juftly admired performance. It is quite 
intire 3 and the horfe is reckoned the fineft piece of 
work of that kind. The other ftatues are not yet 
put up. There are many of them 3 fome in marble, 
fome in bronze, and almoft all of them fine. Parti- 
cularly, one of Agrippina 3 alfo a figure of a woman, 
with a dejedted countenance, which is the moft ex- 
preffive of forrow, innocence, modefty, and diffi- 
dence, that it is pofiible to conceive. Some of the 
bronze ftatues are remarkable for having a fort of 
enamelled eyes put into them 3 but the whites of 
them look very {hocking. 
The marble, that has been found, is very fine, and 
of various forts 3 and the king has made moft beau- 
tiful tables of it. 
The writer proceeds next to give fome account of 
the paintings, and obferves, that, to fpeak the truth, 
much the greateft part of them are but a very few 
degrees better than what you will fee upon an ale- 
houfe-walh They are all painted on plaifter 3 which 
has been very carefully feparated from the wall, in 
as large pieces as might be done. Thefe pieces are 
now framed 5 and there are above 1500 of them, 
but not above 20, that are tolerable. The beft of 
them are 3 large pieces 3 one of which is a fort of 
hiftory- 
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