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0 5 but otlier colours are often employed witSi 
effect. 
Ve j of the apartments are equally, if not still 
attention. They are painted, eitlierin com- 
"t »iru exhibiting some mydiological or historical event, 
>bo;ry coloured over with a light ground, adorned with 
^*>tre perhaps an elegant little vignette, in the 
feotitj ® di.stances. But few of the historical 
Slid t *" Pompeii ; for wherever a wall was 
’'(lojjt® '^.ontain a tolerable picture, it was removed and 
|[^te.st museum at Portici. To effect this, the 
u the tn ingenuity were required, so as to peel off, 
sawing pieces of wall, twenty and more 
extent, witliout destroying the picture. This, 
'^Vatej ’ a modern invention ; for, among the ex- 
'"eiit^ ‘^®^3ins of Stabiaa, the workmen came to an ap.art- 
paintings which had been separated by the 
V ^“sniselves from a wall, with the obvious intent of 
introduced in anotlier place. This was, how- 
1 by the ruin of the city ; and the paintings, 
"^ore found leaning against tlie wall of the apart- 
excavated portion of Pompeii is likewise part of 
being perfectly in a line with the one already 
\'iterv,:. ' Conjectured to be a contiuuation, or rather the 
of 
the latter ; in which case, Pompeii must have 
considerable importance, and its main street 
^Uce tn length. The houses here, as in the otlier 
(if tllstribufed into shops and private dwellings. 
•tiile it 
latter of which are distingui-shed by the re- 
uier inlenial elegance, such as te.sselaled pave- 
i! . * Pill UilCUlUi CiCgilliUC, Jnui-a uunot-tticcvA 
o' Walls, 6cc : most of them havo likewise 
COui-j 
*V*’^PpQ l^tists, vases, and, in short, whatever 
Hy '“t val ’ materials or construction, to have a 
.'o P packed in fifty-two chests, and con- 
city^ * ‘^tniOj at the time the court sought refuge in 
'he Frencli penetrating into the Neapolitan 
> surrounded by apartments. 
museum at portici. 
