i44 THE MUSEUM AT PORTICI. 4 
territory. Wliat still remains, however, in the 
has a high intrinsic value j since who can behold, '‘'1 (j( 
the sti'ongest emotions of admiration, the relics ° - 
most transitory things, which, for nearly eighteen f 
years, have braved the ravages of time ? Here are 
seen bread, corn, dough which was about to be p}*''’" / 
the oven, soap which had been used for washing, 
even egg-shells perfectly white, and in as good a st^tf ^ 
the cook had broken them an hour before. Here a 
presents itself provided witli every thing requisite : 
and pots stand on the hearth ; stew-pans hang on ih® 
skimmers and tongs are placed in the corner j and ® V 
mortar rests on the shaft of a pillar. Weights, 
scythes, and other utensils of husbandry, are here 
with helms and arms. Sacrificing bowls and kn'' ^|f' 
number of well-shaped glasses ; large and sma*‘ y 
bottles ; lamps ; vases ; decorations for furniture ; ® y 
of cloth ; nets ; and even shoe-soles ; all sorts of ^ 
ornaments, — necklaces, rings, and ear-rings ; a 
chess-board, reduced, indeed, to a cinder : all these 
arc more or less injured by the fire; but still are 
gnishfible .at first sight. i ’ 
Every apartment of the museum is laid with n’‘ y 
charming antiejue floors, whidi are partly raosaiC'^^,i-.f 
Pompeii, and partly marble, from Herculanenm. qj f 
vases, busts, chandeliers, altars, tables of mar>''^ y 
bronze, are all in as good a state as it they had j"* ^ y 
from die hands of the artist. The coins which hs"^ yl’ 
collected are very numerous, and till several 
dallions of marl)le, containing on each side a bas-ic |.' 
suspended by fine chains from the ceiling of 
apartments, and are within the reach of the hauJ, ^ , 
be conveniently turned and examined. Pif.'f' 
Most of the pictures found at Merculaiicuu), *j. hj 
and StahisR, and now deposited in the museum, 
sawed from the walls of the edifices they adorned- 
dent art form an extensive J', 
only one in the 
relics of- ancle 
the 
unique 
genuine antique pictures, 
may, on that account alone, be considered as an 
dable treasure. 'I'licy are placed in a range of 
on the ground- floor, and are suspended agair.st 
ilaiii frames. Their size ,-.aries from a foot s'! 
pla 
