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£< hoifcmen fet to watch, to their Teeming, did fee 
“ lamps burn at the points of their haves, or fpears, 
“ in the midfl of thefe lightning dallies.” 
LXI. ExtraEl of a Letter of the Reverend 
Mr. Joleph Spence, Profeffor of Modem 
Hlfiory in the U?iiverfety of Oxford, to 
Dr. Mead, F. R. S. 
Byfleet near Weybridge, Surrey, 
December 7, 1753. 
Read Jan. 10, Have lately received a letter from Sig- 
>754- nor pademi at Portici ; in which, 
fpeaking of the publication of the antiquities found 
at Herculaneum, he fays, Spero she il primo to?no 
non tardera molto tempo ad ifeire ; and then men- 
tions fome particular things, that had been lately dif- 
covered among the ruins j a little brafs bud of fome 
unknown philofopher, of an excellent manner, and 
perfe&ly well preferved : A datue of an orator, in 
marble j and another brafs bud:, on a term, of a 
3 *outh, with particularly beautiful hair, and the whole 
excellent. The artid has put his name to the latter, 
AnOAAHNIOS APXlOT A0HNA1OX FTJOIH 2 E. 
He fays, that the workmen were then jud entering 
on fome nobleman’s houfe, as appeared by the rich 
mofaic pavements, &c. and that they were in hopes 
it would prove a very good new mine. 
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