. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . rkable, except the shop of a baker, to the detailsof which, in conjunction with the art of dyeing, we purpose todevote a separate chapter. It is terminated in a sharp pointby the fountain before mentioned. The disposition of thestreets and houses everywhere is most imsymmetrical, buthere it is remarkably so, even for Pompeii. Just by thehouse with the double vestibule the main street divides int
. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . rkable, except the shop of a baker, to the detailsof which, in conjunction with the art of dyeing, we purpose todevote a separate chapter. It is terminated in a sharp pointby the fountain before mentioned. The disposition of thestreets and houses everywhere is most imsymmetrical, buthere it is remarkably so, even for Pompeii. Just by thehouse with the double vestibule the main street divides intotwo, inclined to each other at a very acute angle, whichform, together with a third cross street of more importance,called the Strada delle Terme, or Street of the Baths,another small triangular island. The house at the apexwas an apothecarys shop. A great many diugs, glasses,and phials of the most singular forms, were found here:in some of the latter fluids were yet remaining. In par- wheeled cart, tencis to confirm this view. Such an adjunct seems hardly to^^vee with the idea that the front building was a custom-house. See Over-be-^k, B. i. S. 137.—Ed. THE VIA CONSULAEIS, OR DOMITIANA. 351. Figure from the House of the Female Dancers. 352 POMPEII. ticular one large glass vase is to be mentioned, capable ofholding two gallons, in which was a gallon and a half of areddish liquid, said to be balsam. On being opened, thecontents began to evaporate very fast, and it was thereforeclosed hermetically. About an inch in depth of the contentshas been thus lost, leaving on the sides of the vessel asediment, reaching up to the level to which it was formerlyfilled. The right-hand street leads to buildings entirely inruins, the left-hand one, which is a continuation of the ViaConsularis, or Domitiana, conducts us towards the Forum. Immediately to the eastward of the district just describedis the House of Pansa, which occupies a whole island. Theisland between it and the city walls, on t
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