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The king is now employing a perfon to take draw- 
ings of all the ftatues, and principal paintings ; with 
an intent to publilh them, together with an account 
of Herculaneum. The ftatues cannot be made to 
appear more beautiful than they really are : but the 
writer imagines the world will be vaftly deceived 
with regard to the paintings. For the man is a very 
nice drawer ; and has alfo managed the colouring to 
advantage ; fo that he has made exceedingly pretty 
things, from originals, which are miferable daubings. 
The company having feen the drawings firft, were 
extremely difappointed, when they afterwards came 
to view the originals. It is likewife propofed to 
make a plan of the town, by meafuring all the walls, 
which they find, and taking all the angles ; and thus, 
in fome degree, to compenfate for the omiffion of 
laying it all open. 
XXII. An Occult ation of the Planet Vemu 
by the Moon in the Day- time , obferved in 
Surrey-ftreet, London, April i 6 , 1751, 
0 . St. by Dr. John Bevis. 
Read April 1 8. ' | "p I N D I N G many had gotten a notion 
1751. jj-i from the almanac-makers, that it 
would be next to impofiible to obferve this occulta- 
tion, I was refolved to give attention to it ; well re- 
membering, that I had feveral times feen Venus on 
the meridian with a three-foot tranfitory, when Hoe 
was much nearer her fuperior conjunction with the 
fun, than now. The whole matter was. to direCt a 
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