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SCG-C.748.002
1-8 Feb 1748:11 (721)
An Account having formerly been given of the discovery of a
subterraneous city in the Kingdom of Naples, we have reason
to expect that the two following letters in confirmation of
that account, will be very acceptable. The first is from a
Knight of Malta, dated the 24th of June last, and ruus thus:
I have seen what may be esteemed a singularity in
history. The city of Heraclea, of which Pliny speaks in his
letters, that by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was covered
many feet deep under cinders and has been by degrees
discovered at a place called Portica, a country palace of
the King of the Two Sicilies. This city is entire, the
houses have been found perfectly furnished. . . [4 lines]
They have found there an entire theatre, with its statues in
metal, and marble relicks of the finest antiquity, with
painting in fresco, extremely well preserv'd, but with this
singularity, that they have only two colours. . .
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