interior it looks more like a beautiful picture gallery or magnificent hall than like a place of worship the were painted by and it contains many royal monuments in one of the churches we looked through an iron barred gate at a number of engaged in religious services and certainly they looked as holy pure and inspired as the highest ideal of an angel thousands of beautiful statues are seen in the churches and i shall never forget the veiled christ or the statue of modesty each covered with a veil there are so many pictures and works of art that one cannot think at night of what he has seen during the day the national museum scott this immense museum contains the of many of the most valuable works of art in the world and in it are most of the treasures dug up at and the ornaments and household furniture t l pictures statues and implements from the buried cities are very interesting from the water works of two thousand years ago there is a gi eat brass stop cock with the pipe so closed up that the water imprisoned in it twenty centuries is still there and may be plainly heard when the thing is moved a day in the wish of my life was realized i saw the buried city of i only saw the part that had shores or been dug up it is fourteen miles through a beautiful country where it is country for most of the way the road lies the villages on the shores of the bay we entered the city near the villa of and in this place professor told us something about the city it was on ground at the foot of sloping to the bay it is supposed that the shore was considerably nearer the city than now the and ashes having filled up a portion of tlie bay was a rather aristocratic sort of a place for it seems to have more fine houses and important public buildings than most places of its size under in it became a roman colony february an earthquake threw down the buildings of a greater part of the city and the inhabitants abandoned the city for a time but they returned and while they were still employed in the august the of occurred which buried it in ashes and it is thought that many of the citizens came back to the site of the city and removed as much of their property as they could dig up while engaged in this work they built dwellings on the spot but another in buried the city still deeper probably it was then out of sight and out of mind for even the memory of it passed away except so far as it was recorded in the books in a man digging a well discovered a painted chamber filled with statues and other works of art have been carried on till the present time though not with much till within a few years the government has possession of the buried city young america in italy and who wear a uniform and charges two admission for each visitor the city was walled in and � probably the sea washed one of its sides they were two miles in extent and were provided with towers the city was entered at eight gates the streets are generally narrow tlie drive way of the being only eleven feet they are with high above the pavement of the street they are paved with irregular blocks of flat on the top raised stepping stones are frequently to be seen placed across the drive way for the convenience of passengers in wet weather and the high seem to render them necessary the pavement is with the of in the narrow streets the city was supplied with under the principal avenues though the water must have run deep in the streets in rainy weather on some of the walls the lists are painted in red of shows and of are also to he seen and in the sections last dug up the signs of the merchants and are still fresh on the fronts of the buildings they look as though some skilful clerk witli a marking brush had recently painted them only about two of the area of the city have been dug over and some of the recent discoveries are the most interesting men women and boys as lively as were at work with baskets carrying out the ashes and the houses had flat roofs made of wood and were either burned or crushed in by the hot matter from the above the buried city the soil has been renewed the trees grow and the land is improved by sunny shores or farms none of the houses had chimneys and they probably burned in for some of this fuel has been found in the rooms we made our first halt at the villa of just outside of the walls a esq lived here and his tomb is opposite the house � ye living men come view the ground where you must shortly lie he does not lie for a skeleton supposed to belong to a d was found near the garden gate the bones of another man near him appeared to be those of his servant one had a key in his hand the other a bag of gold and silver of the time of and o the of eighteen persons two of them children were discovered in the cellar where the family retreated when the shower of ashes came on the establishment was a first class with dining reception and bath rooms and a gallery overlooking the sea we walked up the street of the and the ruins of them reminded us that their tenants lived before and in the time of near the gate is the villa of nobody knows whether or not he ever lived here but in one 