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which are yet unopened, it is to all appearance very 
probable that many and many paintings and infcrip- 
tions may be difcovered, fufficient to form a very en- 
tertaining, and perhaps a very ufeful, work : a work 
which would doubtlefs intereft all the learned and 
curious world, not only as it may bring to light (if 
fuccefs attends this undertaking) many works of art, 
in times of luch early and remote antiquity, but as 
perhaps it may alfo be the occafion of making fome 
confiderable difcoveries in the hiftory of a nation, in 
itfelf very great, though, to the regret of all the learn- 
ed world, at prefent almoft unknown. This great 
fcene of antiquities is almoft entirely unknown even 
in Rome. Mr. Jenkins, now relident at Rome, is 
the firft and only Englilhman who ever vifited it. 
Vol. LIII, 
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