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In one of the other rooms there was a fine pair of 
fcales, in which there are fome remains of the firings 
made of a kind of fine coral, and the firings remain 
in fome of the rings. There were found likewife 
many vefiels of earth and fragments of metal. 
In the ancient Stabiae they go on digging ; but it 
is long fince any thing of value hath been found, ex- 
cept that in the beginning of this month two finall 
fiatues of brafs were dilcovered. One reprefents a 
Venus, but of no value. The other a Panthea with 
a rudder, horn of plenty, lotus, modius, and fickle. 
It is but of ordinary workmanfhip. Many vafes of 
earth, fome of glafs, have been found. A great vef- 
fel of copper with a handle, a fingular funnel, a 
beautiful little vafe of rock-cryfial with its cover, 
and a fimpulum or ewer, divers medals, as well fil- 
ver as copper, well preferved, but common, and vari- 
ous pieces of leaden pipes, have allobeen found there. 
The fame may be faid of Herculaneum ; for 
fince the month of March, after the coloflal bufi of 
brafs was found, they have difeovered nothing of 
value except one thing, which ought to make 
much noife among the learned, and which I believe 
to be the only one of its kind in the world. This 
is a little leg and thigh of metal covered with 
filver, and which is five inches long. Upon the ex- 
ternal part of it is deferibed a fun-dial formed upon a • 
quadrant, and as the thigh forms a quarter of a circle, 
the workman hath taken, the center of this quadrant 
from the extremity or leg of the gammon, and hence 
hath drawn hour-lines, which with the lines, that 
mark the months, form the ufual compartments, fome 
larger and others fmaller, which are divided fix by 
fix, 
