A flat piece of white glass, taken off from towards the extremity of
the sheet, as appears from the curvature and protuberant thickness of
one of its sides above the other parts. I have several observations by
me, with regard to this fragment, which I have not yet had leisure to
digest. I shall therefore proceed to the other parts of this collection.
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To enter into a detail of the paintings found at Herculaneum, and
deposited in a different part of the palace at Portici, would be
tedious, as their number, when I saw them, exceeded 800; and it
would be superfluous, as the principal of them will soon make their
appearance in the world by prints taken from them, and executed in a
manner, which (as far as I could judge by the specimens shewn me) will
in no-wise discredit the originals, I shall therefore only mention two
of them, _viz._