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tisies you have walls of bare brick ; but 
almoft throvgheut, you fee above ard 
abcut you, pillars of maible or ftucco 
crufhed or broken, or lying in all forts of 
diieCtions. Some‘imes you have plainly 
the outfides of wails of buildings that have 
apparently falien inwards ; end fometimes 
the infiies of buildings that have fallen 
out sal and {:metimes have apparent 
both the infides and outfides of bui iIdings 
that tand uprizht; and many of ‘them 
wouid, I dare fay, be found to be entire, 
as feveial o: them have in part been found 
to oe 
Yo make an end of this general defcrip- 
tion, you have ail the way “fuch a co: fati- 
en r bhick and tiles, and mortarand mar- 
bie cornifhes, and. ‘riezes and other mem=< 
fe is and cinamen!s, foscther with fucco 
rd beams and rafteis, aod even what 
Resi co have been the trees that ftcod in 
the tovn, and blocks and billets for fuel, 
_together with the earth and matter that 
appears to have everwheimed the place, 
all to bleeded and crufiied, and, as it 
were, ‘o mixed together, that it is far ea- 
fier to conceive than’ to defcribe. The 
ruin in generai is nat to be exprefled. 
Having giyen your lordfhip this gene- 
ral aceount, I will now run over the moft 
remarkable particulars J faw, jult as they 
eccur to me wi hout pretendmg ‘to or- 
der: for as I have hinted already, it was 
impofliile for me to know in what order 
they ftand in refpect of each other. 
I faw the authide of a rotund, which 
may have been a temple; it is crowned 
with a dove; it may be about thirty foot 
in diameter; but I forbear: to fay any 
thing of meafures; for they will allow of 
none to be taken. Near it J faw the lower 
part of a Corinthian column upon the 
ioftieft proportioned brick-pedeftal I ever 
oblerved, and thereabouts {ome very folid_ 
buildings. I foon alter pafled over what, 
by the length we faw of it, appears to have 
been avery vaft mofaic pavement. We 
foon afterwards perceived ourfelves to 
be got into the mfide of a dwelling 
houfe: the rooms appear to have been 
but fmail; they -are lined with fluc- 
€0, and painted with a ground of deep 
red; ed.rned with compartments either 
of white or light yellow, and feme other 
colours : our lights were net gocd enough 
to make us diftinguifh. In thefe com- 
partments were grotefque paintings of 
bids, beats, mafks, fefioons, and the 
like. is ae 
Soon afierwards, with fome eiealon 
and by creeping up a very narrow hole of 
Extradts from Mr. Cole’s Manuferipts. 
[Aug. 1, 
loofe earth, we got into an upper apart= 
ment of another houfe. The flocr was of 
ftucco, and the earth and rubbihh was 
cleared away from under a great part of 
it and found a room lined and adorned in 
the fame manner, and in the fame colours, 
ard with the fame ground of deep red as 
the fides: This room may have been 
about ten or eleven feet high; but the 
danger of our fituation would not permit 
us to do otherwife than to get out of it 
as foon as we could. 
Shortly afterwards we were carried, ra- 
ther afcending as we went, into what 
“feems to have been a priccipal room of 
fome great houfe. At the end of it, which 
is to be feen, there were three large beu- 
fets in the wall, all three moit admirably 
painted, partly. in gre telque, and partly 
in per{pective, repteienting temples, houfes, 
gardens, and the like, executed with the 
ereatelt Paths aly judgment, and variety, 
and very much entivened with the lightett 
and mof airy ornaments; as is the whole 
of the room, as far as can be feen; not 
excepting the roof, which feems to have 
been a’ floping one: and alli the lines of ‘ 
the compartments of the painting of it 
feem to tend to fome crnamené that mut 
have been in the middle or centre at the 
top. What the height of this room may 
have been is hard to fay; for by the bou- 
feis it appears that there is a good depth 
to be dug out to get at the floor. I mut 
net omit, that between the painted com~ 
partments of this room there 1s continually 
a palm tree, reprefented in fo very pictu- 
refque a manner, that I think it is one of 
the moft pleafing ornaments I ever faw. 
What may be the length and breadth of 
this room is not to be gucfled at; tor they 
have not cleared away above, I think, five 
foot of the end of it I have been giving an 
account of. 
We afterwards paffed through fome or- 
dinary rooms belonging to the fame nurfe ; 
and through the infide of fome other houfes, 
feemingly of lefs note. Of ‘thefe infides 
in general I fhailonly fay that they are al- 
molt always painted ‘of a deep red, fome- 
times plain, and femetimes adorned with 
‘figures, &c. . 
It feemed to me twice or thrice, as we 
pafied along, that we turned the corners 
of ftreets. ieee I thought we pafled 
fronts of houfes; and onee particularly 
we pafied by the frent, as it feemed, of 
{cme very large public edifice, -with very 
broad fluted pilafters of ftucco. 
But nothing is more extraordinary relat- 
ing to this is place, than what i is demonitra-~ 
tively 
