Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . ted rather as we construct our own, and probably com-municating with the houses under which it passed. It isinconceivable that there should not have been some such con-venience to carry off not merely the grosser dirt, but thefountain waters so profusely supplied. Several similar emis-sories have been observed in different parts of the town,passing, as this does, beneath the footway, and probably
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . ted rather as we construct our own, and probably com-municating with the houses under which it passed. It isinconceivable that there should not have been some such con-venience to carry off not merely the grosser dirt, but thefountain waters so profusely supplied. Several similar emis-sories have been observed in different parts of the town,passing, as this does, beneath the footway, and probably* JIazois, part i\ p. 99. 84 POMPEII. under the houses. Mazois mentions having seen, by the sideof a fountain at one of the entrances to the Forum, a drainleading to a sewer below, closed by an iron grate in good pre-servation.* The mouth of a similar sewer was found at theoutside of the gate leading to Nola. Mazois seems to ima-gine that it was merely a channel commencing just within thegate, and meant to draw off the rain waters which ran downthe street before they reached the outside, where the descentis very steep, and the ascent difficult, even when not impededby a violent rush of Manner of carrying the Amphora. Throughout the streets numerous signs are to be seenupon the shops, indicative of the trades which were pursuedwithin ; a trivial circumstance, yet one which, from its veryinsignificance, often catches the attention, and seems anearnest to the visitor that he is here in truth to be introducedto the usages of private and humble life, not merely led theround of theatres, temples, and all the costly monuments ofpublic magnificence. The annexed cut, from a terra-cottabas-relief, representing two men carrying an amphora, pro-bably served as the sign of a wine shop. Another, foundupon a shop which belonged to the baths, represents a goat,and is said, we know not with how much propriety, to havedenoted that the owner was a milkman. Both these signswere made of ba
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