140 SirET^RRAKEOUS WONDERS. (,f 
commodious ^eals, a free view of the stage, and 
hearing. Allliough sufficiently large to contain two “ 
sand persons, the plebeians, standing in a broad gallery ® j,,; 
top, were quite as able to see all that was passing o>’ j, 
.stage as tire magistrate in his marble balcony. In tli'® 
lery the arrangements fijr spreading the sail-cloth ot'^'.^d, 
■spectators are still visible, — The stage itself is very^ 
a.s it has no side walls ; and appears less deep than 
is. A wall rnas across it, and cuts 'off just as much^ji,! 
as is ncttc.ssary for the accommodation of the perforfflet^' ,ii 
this wtill has three \;ery broad doors ; the middle f 
distinguished by its height, and the space behind it ** j 
deeper than in front. If these doors, as may be conje^' J 
always stood open, the stage was in fact large, and 
besides the advantage of being able to display a doubly j, 
nery : if, for example, the scene in front was that of a * 
there might have been behind a free prospect into tbs 
field. 
The cemetery lies before the gate of the high road- 
tomb of the priestess Mammea is very remarkable • ^ 
erected, according to the epitaph, by virtue of a desj^ if 
tlie Decemvirs. In tlie midst of little boxes of 
square piles, and on a sort of altar, the family tn"t'* j-fO 
placed in niches ; and withoutside these piles the ly .w 
ina.sks are still to be seen. In front of the cemetetyj 
road side, is a beautiful seat, forming a semicircle, 
contain twenty or thirty persons. It was probably 
dowed by trees eighteen hundred years ago ; under 
the women of Pompeii sat in the cool evenings, 
children played before them, and viewed the crowds 
were passing tlirough the gate. 
To the above particulars from the pen of the eh’S^ ,f(l 
lively Kotzebue, the following details, given by a 
accurate traveller, are subjoined. 
The entrance into Pompeii is by a quadrangal*^ 
nearly of the size of the railed part of our Leicester ],if' 
This court is surrounded on every side by a colonnade 
supports the roof of a gallery ; and the latter leads to 
ral small apartments, not unlike the cells of a pr‘®°‘’j, 
columns are of brick, stuccoed over, and painted o* prt 
red : they are in height from ten to twelve feet ; y ils 
at about a like distance from each other ; and ai® 
