The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . r place for wrestling and othergymnastic exercises; whilst a long and narrow-paved strip on one side of it,on which stood two large spheres of stone, appears to have been intended forsome game with the nature of which we are imacquainted. On two sides ofthe quadrangle, besides a large swimming bath open to the sky, wereseveral rooms suited for the accommodation of visitors, the outside walls ofwhich were adorned with paintings and
The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . r place for wrestling and othergymnastic exercises; whilst a long and narrow-paved strip on one side of it,on which stood two large spheres of stone, appears to have been intended forsome game with the nature of which we are imacquainted. On two sides ofthe quadrangle, besides a large swimming bath open to the sky, wereseveral rooms suited for the accommodation of visitors, the outside walls ofwhich were adorned with paintings and well-executed reliefs in the Pompeian thermce are pretty similar in arrangement. Each containsboth in the mens and womens di^-isions, an apodyterium, or undressing room,, or cold bath, a tepidarium^ or tepid bath, and a caldarium, orwarm and vapour bath, besides other apartments and necessary appm-tenances,such as furnaces and the like. The bathing rooms are elegantly ornamentedwith sculptures, paneled ceilings, bas-reliefs in stucco, &c. We annex a cut ofa stucco ornament in the ceiling of the tepidarium in the smaller Thermae. It. STUCCO ORNAMENT IN THE CEILING OF THE TEPIDARIUM. represents a winged child or genius guiding two dolphins, and followed b}another genius riding one sea-horse and accompanied by another. The way is not long from the Old Baths to the Forum. Keeping along THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 53 the street, called the Strada delle Terme^ or Street of the Baths, whichruns between them and the house of Pansa, we soon arrive at another whichcuts it at right angles. The portion of it on our left is the Strada di Mer-curio, or Street of Mercury, so called from a figure of Mercviry in bas-relief, stealmg or bearing a purse, on one of the houses in it. It is a ratherlong street, leading quite down to the town walls, some way to the east ofthe gate of Herculaneum; it is straight, tolerably broad, and altogether one ofthe handsomest streets in Pompeii.
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