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 . DESCRIPTION O F T H E DISCOVERY O F T H E Antient City of Heraclea. PART II. Of the Antiquities ^Heraclea. C H A P, I. An Account of the firfi Bifcoveries made in 1689 T will be neceflary, for the Satisfadion^ of the Curious (Enquirers into fuch. new and unexpefted Things, broughtto light after fo long a Courle of Time)that we ihould begin this Difcourfe with the firflTra6is, i. e. from the End of the laft Age. 1 fhaUth
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 . DESCRIPTION O F T H E DISCOVERY O F T H E Antient City of Heraclea. PART II. Of the Antiquities ^Heraclea. C H A P, I. An Account of the firfi Bifcoveries made in 1689 T will be neceflary, for the Satisfadion^ of the Curious (Enquirers into fuch. new and unexpefted Things, broughtto light after fo long a Courle of Time)that we ihould begin this Difcourfe with the firflTra6is, i. e. from the End of the laft Age. 1 fhaUtherefore recount all that is mentioned in theMemoirs of the Royal Academy at Paris % and* Mem. deLiterat. torn. ic. Des embrafemens duM. Vefuve, like- Lff Description, Qfr. 47 likewife, give you the whole Relation out of thecelebrated M. Bianchinis Book of Univerfal Hif-tory *. Firfl, from the Memoirs of the French Aca-demy. As fome Workmen were digging at the Foot of thisMountain (Vefuvius,) ahout two Miles from the Sea ;having come to a pretty great Depths they ohfervedfome Strata of Earthy which appeared to he regularlydifpofedy as tho* they were Floorings or Pavements^horizontally placed^ one above the other. The Owner of the Ground^ being thereby invited tofearch farther^ continued the Digging, and under thefourth Layer, finding fome Stones with Infcriptions onthem, he ordered them to continue their Search
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