Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . NAPLES. 161 tiond : fo that the bodies which lie in thefe have no other bodydire&ly over them ; but then in the wall beyond fuch tombsor chefts, from the level of the ftone that covers them up tothe top, are often cut niches in the rock, as in the other fidesof the chapels or galleries. In fome places there are two ofthefe chefts, one beyond the other. The chapels probably wereappropriated to particular families : that one of them was fo,is, I think, pretty evident from the remains of a M
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . NAPLES. 161 tiond : fo that the bodies which lie in thefe have no other bodydire&ly over them ; but then in the wall beyond fuch tombsor chefts, from the level of the ftone that covers them up tothe top, are often cut niches in the rock, as in the other fidesof the chapels or galleries. In fome places there are two ofthefe chefts, one beyond the other. The chapels probably wereappropriated to particular families : that one of them was fo,is, I think, pretty evident from the remains of a Mofaic in-fcription which I fhall give by and by. If that be fo, it feemsto me moft likely, that thofe of the later fort belonged to moreeminent families; and that in the chefts, or places which wereto be clofed at the top, the matter or head, and perhaps mif-trefs of the family might be laid ; and in the niches in the wallbeyond, the children or branches of it. I have here prefentedtwo views within the catacombs, which I defigned myfelf uponthe fpct. The fmell is fo much gone, only a parcel of dry
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