Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . ants ofTorre del Greco was the head of thepatron saint brought forth in vain did the Archbishop oppose his rOMPEIANA. 69 imliquifying blood to the fury of fiery torrent, uninfluenced by his pre-sence, rolled on its course to the sea,laying waste and burying their town inits accumulation : but, of a population of18,000, fifteen individuals only are sup-posed to have perished ^; the mass havingwith difficulty saved their lives, obliged toabandon all their goods and effects. Torredel Greco is perhaps reser
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . ants ofTorre del Greco was the head of thepatron saint brought forth in vain did the Archbishop oppose his rOMPEIANA. 69 imliquifying blood to the fury of fiery torrent, uninfluenced by his pre-sence, rolled on its course to the sea,laying waste and burying their town inits accumulation : but, of a population of18,000, fifteen individuals only are sup-posed to have perished ^; the mass havingwith difficulty saved their lives, obliged toabandon all their goods and effects. Torredel Greco is perhaps reserved for the re-search of the curious ; after another in-terval shall have elapsed, its images maybe again brought forth, and another mu-seum may be formed of its remains whenthat of Portici shall exist only in thepages of the antiquary. 1 Many escaped next day over the scoriae upon the sur-face of the burning lava: aiKl thus did a fire-work-makersave his stock in trade and gunpowder 5 his house havingbeen surrounded^ but not entered^ by the lava. 70 PUBLIC WAYS.—TOMBS. The Public Ways ranked amongstthe most important of the ^vorks of Ro-man magnificence. Amazing labour withvast expense, were devoted and combinedin extending them from the Capitol tothe utmost limits of the known world ;and in many instances they seem to havebeen calculated by their construction to POMPEIANA. 71 outlast the empire, of which they had,not inaptly, been termed the arteries. Nor was their construction alone theobject of solicitude; the care of lookingto their repair was not thought unworthythe greatest men of the republic. Nonebut those of the highest rank were eligibleto the office of superintending that ser-vice, and we find Augustus himselftaking the charge of a district. The Appian Way, the most ancientas well as most noble, being distinguishedby the epithet of regina viarmn, as origi-nally made by Appius Claudius the Cen-sor, extended from Rome to Capua *.It was composed of three s
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