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more capable of making the current of 
-tizens of Pompeia. 
the blood run back, aati earry with it a 
painful fenfation to hid heart, than thofe 
fuggetted by the fate of the'wretched ci- 
ab is, feedeath and a 
grave confolidated into one dreadful 
fhape ; to endure the tedious torture of 
" Rruggling to prolong life, without the 
‘hope of 
preferving it ; and to witnels 
the focial defpair, ana certain deftruc- 
*tion of every dear relative, muft furely 
-miftrefs of the villa. 
her, which had received and retamed 
‘ymitate. 
«dum lei. 
i fares LuNCHLAS 3 5 
make up the grofs amount of the keenett 
fufferings that flefh is heir to. 
In a houfe branded by the moft ob- 
-fcene and expreffive defignation of a 
brothel, almof all the fkeletons were fe- 
*male, as might naturally be concluded — 
“The day of fuch an awful vifitation was 
“nat'a time for De to haunt the 
‘ftews. Thefe miferable women were 
found all crowded together “in one apart- 
ment, fo {weet to sega nature 1s fo- 
ciety, even in death. At a country- 
houfe, a little remote from the town, the 
‘inhabitants, thirty-feven in TSE, 
_were huddled together , in a corner ofthe 
ecllar, except one female fkeleton, and 
that of a child, encircled in her arms, 
“which lay diftinét from the reft. From 
fome golden ornaments about the perfon 
of the former, the is fuppofed to be'the 
The earth beneath 
the impretlion of part of her body, was 
removed in a mafs to the Mufeum at 
Portici, where it ftill exhibits the delicate 
texture of the linen that covered one of 
her Bios, and the form of a bofom, 
that the chiffel of Praxiteles, or rhe pen- 
cil cf Apelles, might have gloried to 
The number of fkeletons dif- 
covered, is, howevy er, ey unequal to 
the probable population of the place. 
The timid, the prudent, the rebuft, and 
sate who had a home eifewhere, doubt- 
, emigrated while they Soe The 
fapre sates and the infirm, remained 
with thefe who, diftra€ted between a 
te{s 
Jove of life and the care of their proper- 
Bas deferred their flight, untilit was too 
hat Happy for them had. it been, if 
aie minds had pre-conceived the falu- 
tary and energ etic ccunfel contained in 
an infeription, - fet up about .a hundred 
-and fitry years ago, in a village three 
miles diftant from the volcano: Evzera 
Fam jam enititur, evrumpit, 
pnatumigne lacum emovit, precipitt rutt ible 
tapi, feramque fugam, prevertit, 81 corri- 
GH|Q, Z 
pit, altum offy periifii-—Tr, Ue Jap! 
. fperne 
clamanten lapidem. —Sperne laren ; 
vores nulla > fupe'! 
Prefent State of the Mufeum at. Portici. 
J] May, 
A caufe more cogent than thofe af- 
fizned above, detained the garrifon.— 
‘Withheld by ‘the-rigid difcipline that 
made Rome ‘triumphant over the world, 
it appears, that every man ‘of them pe- 
rifhed at his poft, although’ the fituation 
-of the barracks afforded ithe readieft 
means of efcape*, In each of the lower 
apartments, fuppofed to have: been the 
habitations of the private’ foldiers, two 
helmets were regulariy found, and almoft 
invariably the fame number of ikeletons. 
Four were difcovered in the prifon, or 
dlack-hole, with their legs in irons +, 
and feventcen in a room, that probably 
ferved as the tavern, or cantine. 
Full forty years are now: elapfed fince 
the exiftence ef Pompeia has been 
known; and yet, fuch'is the negleét 
and indolence, or, to charaéterife it bet- 
ter, by their own expretlive word, the 
poltroneria of the Nesplias that; be- 
fides the barracks, only two {mall ftreets, 
and a few deparhied buildings, have been 
expofed to view. The brner are un- 
commonly narrow : the horfe-way four 
{canty paces, the. foot-pavement ,only 
three feet wide. From the deep impref- 
fions of the wheels, it appears, that their 
carriages were ‘of proportionate dimen- 
‘fions, and coyld frecly pats each other, 
without — ug wnoe the petty {pace 
allotted to the foots p affenger. 
The one of the ancients, though of 
regular and Evatt form; and ele- 
gantly arched over head, are generally 
fmall, and admit ane ight of ‘day only 
through the door. This defeé& 18, how = 
ever, “compenfated in the fuperior kind 
* The barracks are a little without the town, 
and on the firii part of the ancient buildings, 
to which ihrangers are admitted. -They cem= 
pote a quadrangle, of which only the oppoiite 
fides are equal; the number of Deric columns, 
which formerly fupported the portico, on the 
longer fides, being twenty-two, and on the 
fhorter, only feventeen. The rooms are gene- 
rally about eleven fcet fguare; and as none of 
them feem to have been inhabited by more than 
two foldiers, it appears, that the defenders of 
the ftate were better treated than at’ préfent, 
when four or five are frequently crowded into 
a fingle, bed.’ Wery near the barracks, is’ a 
mall theatre, ftill in great part covered with 
earth. The tollowing infcription is, however, 
viftble : 
- © C, Quindtius, C. F. Vato—M. Portius M. 
F. Duo Vir dec—decr. Theatrum teGtum Fac 
Locar. eidemque prob. 
Thefe irons havea great -refemblance to, 
thofe on board our ihips of war, 
of 
