TVLLI. OLERII. POESTANI 
QVI. VIX. A. LXXXXV.D.XI. 
FF. XXVIII. NN. LXXXIII. 
C. L. P.P. 
I dare fay you will conftrue it without 
the leaft difficulty. 
In the firft print, you have a profpeft of 
the country, and of the ruins of Pceftum 
as it now appears at a diftance. Its walls, 
you fee, are wonderfully entire, confidering 
their great antiquity. The higher towers 
next the gates are fuppofed to be of more 
modern conftruclion. Over the arch of the 
north gate, on the outfide, there is a figure 
of Neptune, carved on the key-ftone of the 
arch, and on that within, a hippocampus, or 
fea-horfe. The circumference of the city 
is about two miles and a half. It muft 
always have been an unwholefome place 
from its vicinity to the Palm L,ucaniae y and 
from the bituminous and fulphureous 
fprings with which it is furrounded: for 
this reafon the inhabitants were under the 
neceflity of procuring water from diftant 
hills, as appears by the ruins of feveral 
aqu3edu<5ls. 
The principal ruins within the walls are 
an Amphitheatre, a Theatre, and the three 
o 4 Tem- 
