"As a very small part of Herculaneum has hitherto been explored, it is
highly probable that if a general excavation were made, ten times the
number of MSS. above mentioned (1800) might be discovered, and among
them, perhaps, or very probably, some of the first works of antiquity,
the loss of which has been so long lamented."--_Classical Tour_, vol.
i. 4to., p.585.