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mended them to their admirers, and atoned, in their 
eyes, for all their blemifhes and defeats ; and pro- 
felfes great amazement at the accounts, which have 
been fent to England concerning them. 
Then follows a little fort of inventory of things 
found in this fubterraneous town ; kitchen-furniture, 
in abundance, in iron and in copper ; apparently an~ 
fwering the fame purpofes, for which we now ufe 
them, tho’ a little different in thape j vaft numbers of 
lamps, both earthen and copper • locks, hinges, &c. A 
loaf of bread, almoft burnt to a coal, with the baker’s 
name upon it. Some beans and barley. A fifhing- 
net, burnt quite black ; but yet hanging together, fo 
that one may plainly fee the mefhes, and what the 
thing has been. Some urns and tripods, in bronze, 
chafed in a very neat and curious manner ; the chafing 
in filver. Some bufts. A good many fmall figures, 
and medals ; but the king is fo choice of tliefe lafi:, 
that they are not to be feen, tho’ faid to be not very 
curious. All the coin, which they have found, has 
been filver. There are a few good intaglio's and 
cameo s. There is a pair of bracelets, which were 
found on the wrift of a fkeleton ; alfo a tew ear-rings, 
and fome rings. 
The king has laid down, in the rooms at Portici, 
feveral of the mofaic pavements, that were found at 
Herculaneum. The defigns of them are pretty 
enough, but not uncommon. They are, chiefly, black 
and white marble; and very fmall lquares. They are 
laid in a cement, but fo clumfily, that the pieces do 
not touch at all ; and the fame thing was oblerv’d at 
Herculaneum. 
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