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flow’d. Pipes of lead are very often met with ; and 
a day fcarce paflfes, but fomething is brought to be 
deposited in my cuftody. The above is all I can 
write, at prefent, concerning our late difcoveries. The 
mufeum goes on increafing greatly. Now there are 
in it two curule chairs, which are uniques ; thefe were 
in a chamber by themfelves, and had been fomewhat 
injur’d. One is Amply of bronze, and the other of 
bronze, which had been gilt. I can allure you, that 
when, in the courfe of a few months, every thing is 
properly ranged and placed in this mufeum, it will be 
one of the fined; in Europe ; as well for the Angula- 
rity, as beauty, of its objects. Now, particularly, I 
wifh you were here ; being thoroughly perfuaded, 
that you would pafs entire days with me in it, as fe- 
veral other of my friends have done, with the utmofi: 
fatisfaftion. If my time had not been fo entirely 
taken up in putting the mufeum into fome general 
order, I could eafily have given your learned friend, 
Dr. Ward, the defir’d information about the antient 
weights and meafures ; which particular things, how- 
ever, are not yet diAin&ly methodiz’d. We have va- 
rious meafures, but without any marks upon them : 
Ey their form, they appear fuch, as are defcrib’d by 
Montfaucon, and others. We have, alfo, many 
weights of all fizes, with their feveral marks upon 
them, proper for fcales ; and many fteelyards, like- 
wife, of all fizes, the links of which being broken, 
it will firfl: be neceflary to rellore them, before any 
proofs can be made of them. I already conceive a 
high efieem for Mr. Stuart and Mr. Rivet, from the 
honour, which they have acquir’d to themfelves by 
their celebrated undertaking. When they come hi- 
ther. 
