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walls, having four towers, one at each corner j and 
has fjnce been taken up, to be placed with other 
beautiful antique pavements in the faid gallery. 
For fome time pad they have been digging at 
Santa Maria dl Capua, by the King’s order. There 
they have met with feveral very fine flatues of Greek 
workmanfhip ; and among them a Venus, which is 
intire, and matchlefs ^ and all of them have been 
carried to the King’s new palace at Caferta. 
ExtraS of a Eetter from Camillo Paderni, 
dated at Naples, January 1755. 
Read April io,y^CTOBER 22, 1 754, was found a 
\^_J bull in bronze, larger than the life, 
and of excellent Greek workmanfhip ; which from 
fome circumftances may be thought to be a Syrian 
king. It has eyes of white marble, like many other 
bufts, which have been met with. 
November 27, we difcovered the figure of an old 
fawn, or rather a Silenus, reprefented as fitting upon 
a bank; with a tyger lying on his left fide, upon 
which his hand refted. Both thefe figures ferved to 
adorn a fountain, and from the mouth of the tyger 
had flowed water. This Silenus was of bronze, and 
of good workmanfhip. The head was crowned with 
ivy, the body all over hairy, and the thighs covered 
with a drapery. 
From the fame fpot were taken out, November 2p, 
three little boys of bronze, of a good manner. Two 
of thefe are young fawns, having the horns and ears 
of a goat. They have likewife lilver eyes, and each 
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