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 . dely the profileof a fauns head with long flowing moustaches and asss ears,through whose mouth the water issues. This fountain standsin front of the colonnade or propylasum which gives entranceto the triangular Forum, and the Greek temple. The ancients were acquainted with that hydrostaticax iawby which water flowing in a pipe ascends to the level of itssource; and it appears further, that they w
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 . dely the profileof a fauns head with long flowing moustaches and asss ears,through whose mouth the water issues. This fountain standsin front of the colonnade or propylasum which gives entranceto the triangular Forum, and the Greek temple. The ancients were acquainted with that hydrostaticax iawby which water flowing in a pipe ascends to the level of itssource; and it appears further, that they were acquainted 88 POMPEII. with that extension of the law, by which fluids may be madeto ascend in a vertical jet to a height proportionate to thepressure which acts upon them. Several fountains, whichappear to have been fitted up with jets deau, have beenfound in the houses; and the question, if any doubts wereentertained, appears to be decided by a picture found inPompeii, representing a broad vase with a jet of water risingfrom the centre. In the original it is surrounded by a rail-ing, which is omitted here. The background is red, therailing and wall beneath it yellow, and the vase and pe-. Jet deau ; from the arabesque paintings of Pompeii. destal rise out of a sheet of water. The picture has everyappearance of representing the interior of an impluvium,guarded by a low open railing. Annexed is a view of one of the public fountains whichstands in biviis, that is, at the point of division between twodiverging streets not far from the Gate of it is a square building, called by Mazois its castellum,or reservoir. There is some difficulty, as it appears to us,in acceding to this, for there is a door in the shaded side ofthe building (scarcely visible in our engraving), the bottomof which is hardly as high as the orifice of the fountain head of water, therefore, could have been kept here,unless we suppose that there was an interior cistern, whichthis
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