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    Had'faired forthe oceaafoi * , and fi ^ jdtree ^ iiccor / ciourse t omMs Ifcetati ?* # t ! P ^ . 'OBdhfespot that the t&mi of ? Her < &teeiiiiF was fcirry&i deep In lava * fey tfee £ fefet eruption * jf tfae ^ y « at 19 ; i ^> lfti&preeisfe' ^ uatooBi wa& ftW&tfbV&a till \ fl&i when it was accidentallycfcso&frefledbysa peasaiitiia'iS ^ iag ? aii ^ . By order of die King of Hapies , amimiberof WQ&ktnAiaieiiiow ^ m ^( S 5 r < ld on a new excavation * , which has laid bare the portico and varies ctomberfe of & erivaie house ; but the principal o % jefct of curiosity is the old ig&cfcvflti © ti ,

    isr to which we descended by tech-light * $ nd where we : traced , without difficulty , ail the parts © f an ancient theatre , it wtis iiwftil to think of the convulsion which buried a whote town 6 ® or 80 feet deep in lava > and left : a desert on the spot which had before been the sceneof ail the attive biisiness of life . Bat we were somewhat disappointed to find that the Uieatne k the oaly building which csai now be seen , as * fce entrance to the others has now been stopped tip ; and even this has lost mueh of its interest as the statues and decorations have Mtn all carried away to the Museums of i ^ ar tid and Naples * ¦

    < Pompeii is situated abo \ at eight miles further on the samecoastj atid with thfe vfo oneican be disappointe d * Here we were not obliged to descend by torch * l % fct into the bowels of the earth , for the remains of antiquity are laid open tothre day * this eity having been eovered only fifteen feet deep * and that aot * wkh lava ^ but with ashes * We seemed here to be brought actually into contact with the ancient Romans , and to be made acquainted with all the cir < ftidMaii € e& © f their public and private life ; for we wandered about in

    one of their old cities , and beheld not only their markets and their courts of jtistteey their tetnples and their amphitheatres , bitt the very shops where they bought their wine and oily and the-eouches oti which they recliiied at meals ; * iay > mor& 9 as hi to bring us still nearer * we saw oA many < jf the hdus ^ s the very names of the owners written m red faiftt © a the froht walk Among othei-s > te the bouse which belonged ^ Gains ^ Snltet i the nervous and elegant historian of the Catiline tjonspiraey * and the Ju | urthinfe wa ^ It is large and richly omfciMfetfted with frescos and mosaics . In the Qkikte te a cotirr , with

    a sfealk ^ w cistern for water in the ttikldle , and at th&back a ^ err ^ ce for flowerSs and a trioliniwn ^ which admimbly ^ exemplified the aneietit cdstom of redi ^ ifag mstetKl of sitting at ttieais . It is fbriafied' by raising the floor afcoot eighteen inches hrgh , and five feet in breach * theasiiri ^ g fVotn the three walls at the end of the room ; and in the middle i& placed a < small table , towards which the heads of the cowipny approached , a * they tecWied on fe couch * In all the better swt of hot ^ es there Is the sfcrtte kifid of

    court , with the ap ^ nments distributed roond iv ifaere'is ' iti Sallu ^ t ^; a-tid ln * t fe « r hatffe more than One st © ry tfemaminj ^ perhiaps they ne ^ er had MOre than ^ ttfe . I » man y of the shops ^ of which thefe i « * g rea t rtUhtbe ¥ ^ rthe ^ are the vm \ h of the ground story , and of ^ ne above' ; but the flo 6 t of tlie Mtter , tfm d ^ ots , and every thing which wa& ffiratde ^ f vm ^ d ^ tes r td # dfe ^ te ^ d . lie shops are very much oh the Sa * rte plmtofrthim of R ; 6 > frie Md NajDles * at tile present ddy ^ there ^ being in « ?' front < av ^ ' Windyv ^ j ^^^^ ne © wi of which is the entrance ^ nd the re st % # Med tip with a ^ ratet ^ vVall ,

    Which , together with another at * * ight aiigtes ' to ltin ^ he inside , set ^ d fts a coanten There are- maoyof - these ^ bidpft , Yih > which' it is quit ^ i < ileai * Wt ^ the united trades of a miller and a / 'lbate wer « earned on , ^ for ihereis not ^ hly the oven , very like" our modern bvichwwhtyitout the stone tni 11 itt ^ hlch'fee wheat was ground . There is another' iwefl . worthy of n 6 lice ^ ^ feh ^ tvas ijalled a t ^ termopoliunp r because , hot medicated potions were sdl'd' there . Here we find not only tliei « tov / e , where the liauov vvas heated ^ bli t thh very

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 835, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/35/