Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . istantbuilding, are all from the same source. The three bronzes are amongst themost beautiful discovered: they are ofMercury, Cupid, and Venus. The latterhas annulets of gold on her arms andlegs. The brazier with four towers was con-trived to heat water or liquors, as well aswarm the room. The charcoal was placedin the square part, which was lined withiron. The towers held the liquid : their b XVIJI lids were raised by rings. The whole was2 feet 4 inches square. Glass, as used in windows for thetransmission of light, was almost u
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . istantbuilding, are all from the same source. The three bronzes are amongst themost beautiful discovered: they are ofMercury, Cupid, and Venus. The latterhas annulets of gold on her arms andlegs. The brazier with four towers was con-trived to heat water or liquors, as well aswarm the room. The charcoal was placedin the square part, which was lined withiron. The towers held the liquid : their b XVIJI lids were raised by rings. The whole was2 feet 4 inches square. Glass, as used in windows for thetransmission of light, was almost unknownat Pompeii: indeed, 200 years later, we findVopiscus numbering this luxury amongstthe extravagancies of the merchant Fir-mus, whose riches enabled him for sometime to contest the sovereignty of Egyptwith the troops of Aurelian. The relievo representing Caryatides isfrom the Royal Museum. MOUNT VESUVIUS, OVER THE PLAIN ANDCITY OF POMPEII. The site of Pompeii, under Vesuvius, ismarked by the long light line formed bythe ashes turned out of the excavations:. h> ^ P W XIX upon this the Amphitheatre is the farthestobject to the right; while behind the leftextremity is the gate of to the left, on the slope of themountain beyond Torre del Annunziata,is Camaldoli della Torre, a hill of craters occur between it and thesummit. Nearly under the farthest, tothe right, are some mills, on the Sarnus. The four craters were thrown up duringthe eruption of I76O, when twelve mouthsopened at the foot of the mountain, andkept up a noise like a continued dischargeof artillery from as many batteries. Thetorrent of lava, which, 300 feet wide and15 feet thick, reached within a few^ hundredyards of the sea, is crossed, leavino; thesecraters on the left, before entering Torredel Annunziata. The account, by the Padre della Torre,of this lava, in its approach to a building,is curious. He informs us, that at eightor nine inches from the wall it stopped, b 2 XX and swel
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