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SUBTERRANEOUS WONDERS. 
effect. In the middle is a cooling well ; and on eacl’J, 
a little chamber, about ten or twelve feet square, bn* '..J 
and painted with a fine red or yellow. The |^,ir 
mosaic ; and the door is made generally to serve as ^ j' 
dow, there being but one apartment which recei'"*^* ^ 
tlirough a thick blue glass. Many of these rooms at®,, ; 
posed to have been bed-chambers, because thef® 
elevated broad step, on which the bed may hav® * p,if 
and because some of the pictures appear most apP'^^j^' 
to a sleeping- room. Otliers are supposed to hav® 
dressing-rooms, on this account, that on the walls a ' 
is described, decorated by the Graces, added to y 
little flasks and boxes of various descriptions hav® 
found in them. The larger of these apartmeiua 
for dining-rooms, and in some are to be met with s®’ 
ats-ommodations for cold and hot bath.s / 
The manner in which a whole room wa.s heated, /■ 
ticularly curious. Against the usual wall a secoi’® [V 
eaected, standing at a little distance from die firsb d' 
tliis purpose large square tiles rvere taken, having, IjfV'' 
tries, a sort of hook, so that they kept the first "’all ^ 
were off from them ; a hollow 
space was thus 
aiound, from the top to the bottom^ into which pip^’ 
introduced, that carried the warmth into tlie charub®b,j-^' 
as it were rendered the whole of the place one stoV®- / 
ancients were also attentive to avoid the vapour C * / 
from their lamps. In some houses ^ere is a nicb® 
in the wall for the lamp, with a little 'chimney in 
ot a funnel, through which the smok# ascended, 
to die house-door the largest room is placed : it i-s 
a sort of hall, for it has only three walls, being ffui^® 
in the fore part. The side rooms have no connccti®’’ / 
each other, but are divided off like the cells of luo®^ ’ 
door of each leading to a fountain. j/ 
Most of die houses consist of one such squ®'^^’,,)i 
rounded by rooms. In a few, some decayed steps 
have led to an upper stoiy^ which is no longer in tt^ 
Some habitations, however, probably belongiug ‘ Ij 
richer and more fashionable, are far more spaC'O'^V tK 
these, a first court is often connected with a secoO°’^i> 
even with a third, by passages : in other resp®®'^.V 
arrangements are pretty similar to tlros<« above d®**" 
