Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-24
From Naples Cor. of London Antheneum
DISCOVERIES AT POMPEII.
Result. orRecen1 E1humations., =,

Results ofReeent ExhumatiOns-,
A recent visit to Pompeii, after a
long interval, enables me to give you
new and interesting details of that
remarkable place. About two-fftbs
of the city have already been disin-
tered, and the excavations are now.
being carried on by an average num-
Der of 100 men, towards the east or
northeast. One must look in at the
museum, where fresh bodies or their
forms in plaster of Paris are con-
stantly added. Years have passed
since | was present at the first inge-
nious experiment which was made
by the present Senator Fiorelli to
recover the forms at least of the
dead, so that it is with no slight In
terest that / regard any progress,
and considerable progress has been
made in the art Of preservation. 1t
often happens that, from the super
incumbent weight and other causes,
the bones have been displaced
these are now removed from the de-
bris as far as possible, so that the
figure is not deformed by bones pro
truding from wrong places This
was first attempted in 1873, and has
been continued ever since with great
success. Perhaps the most beautiful
figure in the collection is that of a
young girl, exquisitely formed; she
is lying on her face, while her hand
was evidently attempting to cover
her eyes. The folds of her dress
the very texture-and her hair, are
all sharply defined. Near her lay,
and lies, a man on his back, and by
by his side was, and is, an iron rod,
four feet long, with which it is sup
posed he was forcing a road. Close
by is another female figure, with IRON
sandals attached to the feet, the
bones of which are well preserved.
Without lingering here any longer,
however, let us pass on to the house
in which an excavation was made in
the spring, in honor of our princess.
The objects found there and then, of
no great value, were presented to
her Royal Highness; they are an am
phora, necklace with eightv-four
pieces of coral, a mass of paint of
yellow color, and few other arti-
cles. In this house was a shop for
swarm drinks;" two or three good
freseoes adorn the wall, and oil jars
are sunk in marble slabs.
That comparatively so little of the
treasures of the Pompeians Is found
is easily explained by the fact that
the Inhabitants had escaped, and
thieves broke into the houses, espe-
cially between the earthquake and
the eruption, and carried off all arti-
cles of value. Most of these houses
have indications of these visits in the
modern masnnWork which closes a
hole. am not aware that what are
called "water castles" have been suf-
ficiently noted, perhaps for the rea-
son that most have been carelessly
destroyed. One, however, has late
ly been discovered, and propped up
and bound round with iron, They
were buildings for supplying the
neighboring houses with water. The
top was a large OaSoa, to which wa
ter was carried up by leaden pipes,
a great number of which still lie un-
der the level of the ground. BY
pipes the water was again distributed
from house to house from the UdScd.
The Sarno, which supplied it, still
runs underneath Pompeii, and its
is evident from the depos-
its which have been formed on the
walls of the castle; It's continual
dropping has covered them with
kind of stalactite. Further exami-
nation shows that these deposits cor
exactly with the stone with