8 
[Aug. 1, 
Letters from Pompeii. 
which is in the Museum at Naples, 
weighs at least 40pounds. In the same 
Museum are to be seen saucepans of 
every species, but small in size; cylin¬ 
ders, larding pins, utensils for making 
pastry, &c. &c. A species of portable 
grate, wherein coals were placed, 
arrested my attention ; it is square, the 
border being furnished with a canal, 
wherein water was heated, and the four 
angles having small towers, which, 
-opening at the summits, served either 
to give vent to the steam, or to cook 
something. I was also shown keys, 
surgical instruments, horse-shoes, bits 
made like those now in use, together 
with numerous other curious instru¬ 
ments, but difficult to describe. I was 
surprised on beholding numerous pieces 
of ivory, collected in a box, all of dif¬ 
ferent and whimsical forms, which 
were used at the ladies’ toilettes. I 
might also describe a number of animals 
in bronze, together with the Penates, 
or household gods, and children's play¬ 
things of the same metal, as also a group 
in marble, which the director of the stu¬ 
dies and Museum, caused me to inspect. 
It is of beautiful workmanship, repre¬ 
senting a Satyr enamoured of his goat, 
a circumstance which his position fully 
identifies. 
In many dwellings baths are found, 
and subterraneous excavations, which 
were used for cellars, wherein I saw 
liquor measures one foot in width, to 
three or four feet in length, and at the 
extremity of some few, were still found 
the materials used for colouring wine, 
dried up by time, the dust of which I 
tasted, in the hope that it might prove the 
celebrated wine of Falernum. Above 
the baths are small apartments, serving 
to temper the heat; the pipes which 
conveyed the vapour being still in per¬ 
fect preservation, both for the hot and 
cold water. 
Denominations are applied to several 
houses which do not always appear 
very appropriate; one of them, how¬ 
ever, was certainly that of a baker. 
The court is filled with stone mills, and 
the extremity occupied by an oven, 
above which is sculptured in relief, and 
painted red, that object which is so 
difficult to express, and which was ho¬ 
noured by the ancients under the forms 
of their garden gods ; around this is 
written hie habitat felicit as, and upon 
the portal of an adjoining mansion is 
another sculpture no less evident, of 
the same nature. 
REMAINS 
OF 
POMPEII. 
The above engraving represents the 
House and Manufactory of a Baker—his 
Duelling, his Oven , and Mill. 
I write the present in a miserable 
inn adjoining to Pompeii, but to-mor" 
row I will, in a second letter, speak 
further respecting this city. 
For 
