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of flowers and vine-branches, and many 
P^'^hires, are still to be seen on the walls. The 
"'kh formerly permitted to sprinkle these pictures 
Nvg '.'vatcr, in the jn'esence of travellers, and thus 
Sv former splendour for a moment : but this is 
Nb tj, '^.1' forbidden ; and, indeed, not without reason, 
k' ^'■'fqucut watering might at length totally rot away 
ts houses belonged to a statuaiy, whose work-' 
pii'a full of the vestiges of his art. Another ap- 
i'?il is ^*''0 been inhabited by a snrgeoti, who.sc profes- 
j V evident from the instruments discovered in 
'lr«,i7'<iber 
A large country-house near the gate un- 
K '> slih ■ to a ver)’’ wealthy man, and would, in 
j’tiisiy “tvite inhabitants within' its walls. It is very 
’ ’'^^tids against a hill, and has many stories. Its 
Jty tgjj, “rated rooms are unusually spacious ; and it ha.s 
tl'*’ tliat^^f’ from which you look down into a pretty gar- 
se ^ . has been now again planted with flowers. In 
<1 '' that ' garden is a large fish-pond, 
ascent from which, on two sides, six pillars 
n*hety]’ fhe hinder pillars are the highest, the middle 
b °''^®r, and the front tlie lowest : they appear, 
h( 
> On 
and 
to have propped a sloping roof, 
destined for an arbour. A covered passa 
than to 
t - pjh lUT ail aiuuLii. ix cuvcicu. p^issage, rest- 
incloses the garden ofi three sides -; it was 
9if '''allv*''^ probably served in rainy weatlier as an agree- 
is a fine arched cellar, which receives 
sjtt'ly several openings from without ; conse- 
nt letter it ?|tuosphere is so pure, that in the hottest part of 
■ • rgp I'* always refreshing. 
''•■^^.^'“e.vessels. ' 
^theu'® '^all, 
iiu. ^ iasf _ , .’ 
A number of amphora;, 
are to be seen here, still leaning 
“'b tast — ’ the butler left them when he fetched 
Mt ** of “f ■'vine for his master. .Had the inha- 
lit;'* ttiigL “rnpeii preserved these vessels with stoppers, 
K ^'tean-, ^'ave been found in them ; but as it was, 
• rushing in. 
of course forced out the 
twenty human skeletons of fugitives. 
to save themselves here under ground, but 
, “need a tenfnhl more, cniel deatli than tllose 
Mio 
a tenfold more cruel death than tliose 
tt'ere in the open air, were found within this 
