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and an half in breadth. Some of thefe have no 
other light but from the door, while others feem to 
have had a fmall light from above, through an hole 
of a pyramidical form. Many of thefe apartments 
have an elevated part that runs all round the wall, 
being a part of the rock left for that purpofe. The 
moveables found in thefe apartments confift chiefly 
in Etrufcan vafes of various forms ; in fome indeed 
have been found fome plain farcophagi of ftone with 
bones in them. The whole of thefe apartments are 
flucco’d, and ornamented in various manners : fome 
indeed are plain j but others, particularly three, are 
richly adorned ; having a double row of Etrufcan 
infcriptions running round the upper parts of the 
walls, and under it a kind of freize of figures in 
painting : fome have an ornament under the figures, 
that feem to fupply the place of an architrave. There 
have been no relievos in ftucco hitherto difcovered. 
The paintings feem to be in frefco, and are in gene- 
ral in the fame ftile as thofe which are ufually feen 
on the Etrufcan vafes : though fome of them are 
much fuperior perhaps to any thing as yet feen of the 
Etrufcan art in painting. The paintings, though in 
general flight, are well conceived, and prove that the 
artifl: was capable of producing things more fiudied 
and more finifhed : though in fuch a fubterranean 
fituation, almofl void of light, where the delicacy 
of a finifhed work would have been in a great mea- 
fure thrown away ; thefe artifts (as the Romans did 
in their beft ages, when employed in fuch fepulchral 
works) have in general contented themfelves with 
flightly exprefling their thoughts. But among the 
immenfe number of thofe fubterranean apartments 
which 
