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. A description of the East, and some other countries . under the weftend of it. To the north of the town there are two marble coifins; oneis of red and white fpotted marble ; the other has a Medufas head ateach end, and in the middle of the front, is a relief of a man with aclub as going away from a woman who is behind him, which is probablydefigned for Hercules refufing pleafure, and embracing a life of labour andinduftry; there is a woman on each fide in different compartments, andan infcription over all. To the eaft of the town are the remains of an oldchannel of an aqueduift, out of which
. A description of the East, and some other countries . under the weftend of it. To the north of the town there are two marble coifins; oneis of red and white fpotted marble ; the other has a Medufas head ateach end, and in the middle of the front, is a relief of a man with aclub as going away from a woman who is behind him, which is probablydefigned for Hercules refufing pleafure, and embracing a life of labour andinduftry; there is a woman on each fide in different compartments, andan infcription over all. To the eaft of the town are the remains of an oldchannel of an aqueduift, out of which there now runs a large ftreamthat is conveyed to the town by an ill built aqueduft. Over this, onthe fide of the hill, there is a very curious piece of antiquity now inruins, tho it feems to have been defigned to have lafted tor ever, but ithas been deftroyed by force ; it is a room hewn out^of one ftone of greymarble, and feems to have been an antient fepulchre; it was probablymoved to this place, and not cut out of the rock on that fpot, unleis art. J^IZAA oi NICE and loTxve M UILIJIA^ O S m \x, ia& 3.^1^ F ol xh^ I^iKB.
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