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at Conftantinople j and that a lake of frefii water is 
rifen where the town funk. The earthquake was 
felt at Angora and Smyrna, but there was no notice, 
they had felt any thing of it at Aleppo, though there 
were letters from thence as frefh as that time. 
CII. ExtraEl of a Letter from Camillo Pa- 
derni, Keeper of the Herculaneum Mu- 
feum , to Thomas Hollis, Efq\ relating to 
the late Difcoveries at Herculaneum. 
Read Dec. 12. 
1754 - 
I 
Naples, O&. 18, 1754. 
Shall now proceed to give you fome 
little account of our late difcoveries 
at Herculaneum. We are going on to dig in two 
places, one towards the road della Torre del Grego ■ 
and the other nearer to the neighbourhood of the 
royal palace at Portici , directly under the wood be- 
longing to the church of the Augujlines. This latter 
place has afforded many things, and will, as we hope, 
furnifh many more. Pleafe only to refled:, in what 
manner the perfons employed are obliged to work 
through the fubterraneous pafiages, and how hard 
they find th e lava and then you may judge why 
they advance fo flowly. The firft thing here difco- 
vered was a garden, in which were found divers 
frames of marble of excellent Greek artifts. This 
route led us towards a palace, which lay near the 
garden. But before they arrived at the palace, they 
came to a long fquare, which formed a kind of Fo- 
rum , and was adorned throughout with columns of 
ftucco j in the rpiddle of which was a bath. At 
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