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followed out of the carbonized poncake
take and break it. Open that cupboerd, you
will find there preserved olives, dried figs,
lintels, and eatablcs of every description. A
saucepan has been carried to the Naples
Museum, containing piece of meat as well
preserved asby Mr.. Appert's process. What
number of meals fcsuvius interrupted on
that woful day
|, nevertheless, do not think that the Ro-
mans were great eaters. | have carefully
explored number of kitchens and dining
rooms at Pompcli, and have found, even
in the richest houses but very trf1ing cook
ing apparatus, and miniature table utensils.
Their plates were real saucers, and the tables
upon which the dinner was served up, but
little stands, in general of stone or marble,
which could hold but one fish at time. The
guests lay down around as soldiers round
their mess. What is admirable, delightful,
charming, and overwhelming to us barbarians
Of the nineteenth centary, is the exquisite
pureness and delicacy of shape of all the
utensils which served in Roman domestic life.
One must see those charming little bronze
calefactors, tor every thing was bronze)
those tripods, scales, beds, chairs, those
graceful and so ingeniously wrought shields,
which fill up whole rooms at the Naples
Museum. One must, above all, see the
toilet arsenal of the Roman ladies', their
combs, tooth-picks, curling-irons, and the
pots of vegetable or mineral rouge found in
boudoir. Thus the Roman LADIES' used
rouge and deceived people, inst as is practs-
ed nowadays they wore, like our ladies
those necklaces, rings and ridiculous ear.
rings, which and nothing to beauty and assis
not uglness. How times resemble ono
, another, in spite OF the space that separate:
them.
Above thirty streets of Pompeii are nov
restored TO light; it is third part Of the town
The walls winch formed its ancient inclosur.
have been recognized magnificent am
A phitheatre, a theatre, forum, a temple Isis
that of Venus, and a number of other bull
: dings, have been cleared. The secret stair
by which the priests of those times silly crep
: to prompt the oracles, have been detected
On behOlding so many monuments whicl
: display in SO lively manner the importanc,
: of public, and the independence Of private
Il life among the Romans, it is impossible t.
!, resist feeling of sadness and melancholy
e Behold, along that fall of earth, the breas
, of a woman who was buried alive, and stiff
s fened by deatll-behold the stones of tina
t wall, worn by the rubbing of the ropes-cx
anime that guard house covered with carca
y lures of soldicrs-one might suppose that tn
y Roman people still existed and that we wcr
n strangers in one of their towns. Who know
what future discoveries may be made in thos
h august ruins! Murat employed upon ,hcr
= two thousand men every year. Only siXt
: men and $1,000 are now employed upo
= them. The excavations proceed, in const
n quence, with dismal slowncss, however gree
i may be the interest which his Sician Ma
o jesty takes in their success. 1t is not
Is Rome-dcvastatcd and disiiguered Rom
= that one must 90 to study the Romans; it
i TO Pompeii. Pompcii, as regards antiqutic
|, is worth all Italy together.