A description of the first discoveries of the antient city of Heraclea, found near Portici, a country palace belonging to the king of the Two SiciliesIn two . II. Of the Temples and Paintirtgs, found near the Theatre 90, CHAP, VIII. Other Ohfervations on, andDefcripti- ons of ths fald Painti?jgs 98 C H A P, xvi CONTENT S. CHAP. IX. Defcriptions of other Buildings in He- R A CLE A, and of the Antiquities found therein io8 CHAP. X. A Diary of the Difcoveries made in theSummer ^/ 1739 115 CHAP. XL Of later Difcoveries^ with other Ob-fervations and Remarks 123 Plaufus Orhis Literati^ &c. 1


A description of the first discoveries of the antient city of Heraclea, found near Portici, a country palace belonging to the king of the Two SiciliesIn two . II. Of the Temples and Paintirtgs, found near the Theatre 90, CHAP, VIII. Other Ohfervations on, andDefcripti- ons of ths fald Painti?jgs 98 C H A P, xvi CONTENT S. CHAP. IX. Defcriptions of other Buildings in He- R A CLE A, and of the Antiquities found therein io8 CHAP. X. A Diary of the Difcoveries made in theSummer ^/ 1739 115 CHAP. XL Of later Difcoveries^ with other Ob-fervations and Remarks 123 Plaufus Orhis Literati^ &c. 12& A fhort Account of the Difcoveries^ in a Letter from Card, ^irini to Signor Gefner^ Profeffor at Got- tenhurg 135 m-^^B^ E R ,R A T A. PAG. 2. line 4. for Atamante read Athamas;P. 9, 1. %.for as it is, r. as 18. 1. 7. for Heraclea, r. 25. I. %Q. fsr Magiftrate, r. z8. 1. 3. for near was f»und, r. was found *. 65. 1. 1?. for connot, r, 65. 1. 26. for pofuit, perfecit, r. pofuit, fecit, perfesitP. 8S. 1. »r Suetorius, r. 104. I. 2. for Giant, r. Giants,P. 106. 1. eleven, r. DESCRIPTION O F T H E DISCOVERY O F T H E Antient City of Heraclea. PART L Of the Foundation ^Heraclea. CHAP. I. Who Hercules was^ and why fo called, T will not be foreign from our Pur-pofe, to treat a little in this Place aboutthe Name of Hercules^ the Founder ofthis City of Heraclea. And withoutexamining into every Particular thatmay have been wrote concerning it, by Bochartyand Huezio^ and others, who derive it from the ori-ental Languages ; and being in particular to fpeak B of


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