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gined mud contain more than a fingle volume. I 
tried with the utmod care to get it out, but could 
not, from the damp and weight of it. However I 
perceived, that it confided of about eighteen volumes, 
each of which was in length a palm and three Nea- 
politan inches ; being the longed hitherto difcovered. 
They were wrapped about with the bark of a tree, 
and covered at each end with a piece of wood. All 
thefe were written in Latin, as appears by a few 
words, which broke off from them. I was in hopes 
to have got fomething out of them, but they are 
in a worfe condition than the Greek. From the lat- 
ter the public will fee fome intire columns, having 
myfelf had the good fortune to extract two, and 
many other fine fragments. Of all thefe an account 
is drawing up, which will be published together 
with the other Greek characters, now engraving on 
copper-plates, and afterwards make a feparate work 
by themfelves. The perfon, who is to give this ac- 
count, is of the fird didinCtion among the learned at 
Naples ; fo that there is no doubt but it will be very 
fat is factory. We are likewife in hopes, that inafhort 
time the catalogue of the paintings will be pub- 
lifhed ; to which, it is not unlikely, will be added 
that of the datues and bronzes, if the volume admit 
of it ; in order thereby to unite them into one work, 
and better fatisfy the curious. In the mean while 
they are very bufy in engraving the paintings them- 
felves ; of which the king has refolved to publifh 
the fird volume fpeedily, a great number of the 
plates being already finiflied. At prefen t the monk, 
who was lent for from Rome, to try to open the 
former manufcripts, has begun to give us fome hopes 
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