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the place where it is difcovered, but in my preience. 
We have likewife found a large quantity of houfe- 
hold furniture, made of earthen and iron ware, and 
fome glafs. At prefent this is all that I am at liberty 
to mention. Shortly will be publifhed a general 
catalogue of all the things, which have hitherto been 
found 5 and this year will come out alfo the firfl: 
volume of the paintings. Both thefe I will take 
care to convey to you. 
XXIII. Copy of a Letter from a learned 
Ge 7 ttleman of Naples, dated February 2 5, 
*755> concernmg the Books and antient 
Writmgs dug out of the Ruins of an Edi- 
fice near the Site of the old City of Her- 
culaneum; to Monfignor of Y\{2i^ 
F. R. S. fent to Mr, Baker, F. R, S, and 
by hwi communicated ; with a Tranfation 
by John Locke, Efq\ F, R, S. 
Read April j 7 ,t N obedience to your commands, I 
"/SS- account I can of the 
writings. You muft know then, that within two 
years laft pafl, in a chamber of a houfe, (or more 
properly fpeaking, of an antient villa, for by many 
marks it is certainly known, that the place, where 
they are now digging, was never covered with build- 
ings, but was in the middle of a garden), there has 
been found a great quantity of rolls, about half a 
palm 
