4JEECUI.ANEUM. 
tavg^i j^suing from the thicket which surrounds it, may 
Oii to some confused association with the burning-bush 
®>int Horeb, recorded i» Exodus. 
HERCULANEUM. 
He Was, together with Pompeii and Stabia, involved 
''esj! P^toinon ruin occasioned by the dreadful emption ol 
Q to the reign of Titus, already described. It was situ- 
j' * point of land stretching into the Gulf of Naples, 
'*''''’ 1)5 distant from tliat city, near where the modern 
Haf ^“riici audResini.andthe Royal Palace, by which 
S ^ ..toparated, now stand. The neck of land on which it 
,1 amj which has since disappeared, formed a small 
T-J 4.1 ^11.,*.:,^^... Pnr/7/-»/7W tK/» 
"'StljQ ' "“u wmeii lias siiiec uisurijjcan-vi, .. 
Hence tlie appellation of Herculis Porllcum, the 
of Hercules, sometimes given to Herculaneum, 
\ Lj^ce, in all probability, the modern name of Ponid, 
being situated immediately above some ot tire 
of Herculaneum, the just fear of endangering 
'''hy by undermining it, is given as a principal reason 
*Rlc progress has been made in the Herculanean 
’‘>iiw,.'^°'-ery of Herculaneum is thus explained. At 
cl^^Herable distance from the Royal Palace ol Portici, 
Uiei ‘he sea side. Prince Elbeuf, in the beginning 
Jpply eeiitury, inhabited an elegant villa, do obtain a 
'vater, aweUwasdug, in the year 1730, through 
e ^st of lava on which the mansion itself had been 
Hcs-V, labourers, after having completely pierced 

Aduuureis, divci navuig — . 
iva, which was of a considerable depth, came 
Ik “'tat wiiicii was ui a — -- 
I badic ’^his event precisely agrees with 
ton relative to Herculaneum, that it was in the first 
ik '*'edis?'?‘‘'yhelmed by a stratum of hot mud, which was 
I y followed by a wide stream of lava. Whether 
thrown up from Vesuvius, or fomied by tor- 
toin, docs not appear to have been decided. Within 
workmen found tliree female statues, which 
Vienna. 
ttot until some years after tliat the researches at 
‘‘to Were seriously and systematically pursued. By 
^ ll»«an ^'^heuf’s well, the excavators at once came tu 
told from that spot carried on their further sub 
