Temples which you fee in thefe three prints. 
They are all what the Greeks called amphi^ 
proftyhs, that is, having two porticos, one to 
each front. The columns of thefe temples 
are of the Doric Order, in its moft ancient 
manner. 
j Probably you will be furprized when I in- 
form you, that the ruins of Pceftum were 
fii ft .difcovered about five and thirty years 
ago. How this difcovery happened, I will 
tell you, in the words of my worthy friend 
Dr. Longfield, to whofe learned publication, 
I refer you for a more circumftantial ac- 
count of thefe ruins. 
" In the year 1755, an apprentice to 3 
painter at Naples, who was on a vifit to 
his friends at Capaccio, by accident took a 
walk to the mountains which furround the 
territory of Pceftum. The only habitation 
he perceived, was the cottage of a farmer, 
who cultivated the beft part of the ground, 
and referved the reft for pafture. The ruins 
of the ancient city made part of this view, 
and particularly ftruck the eye of the young 
painter; who, approaching nearer, faw, with 
aftonifhment, walls, towers, gates, and tem- 
ples. Upon his return to Capaccio, he con- 
fulted the neighbouring people about th9 
origin 
