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ever those who are sanctified;" "that he was made a curse for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

Couches for the gods (ancient reposoirs). A fresh god was placed on them, in turn, each day in the week:— Apollo, Diana, Mars, Mercury, Jove, Venus, Saturn-thus confirming the original division of time into weeks. These couches were called Lectisternia, and are composed of bronze, inlaid with silver; the form very much like our old-fashioned window-seats.

Two chairs. It was customary for slaves to carry this kind to public places for their masters. The tripods very elegant.

Censers for incense-not half so richly wrought as those in the churches here, but used for the same purpose. A friend of mine saw the magnificent new silver Madonna censed, at Notre Dame, in Paris, with a splendid one!

There are, besides, a multitude of other curious heathen sacred vessels.

In the sixth room of these antique wonders are scrapers for baths, and essence-bottles for the same; also ancient Greek armour. A bronze helmet found in Herculaneum ; the basso relievo represents the siege of Troy. Æneas escaping, with his father on his shoulders, and leading the young Ascanius; no man less strong than Hercules could wear it, and to give it to him would be rather an anachronism. Lamps, formed by little figures of slaves, with Phrygian caps, like those now worn in Naples. Inkstands, with dry remains of ink; and leaden pens and styles.

I remarked two very curious bells, formed of a flat, circular, bronze plate, with a clapper hung to it by a chain; they were fastened to carts, and as the horse moved, the

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clappers pealed and made a stunning noise. I quite started when it was first put into motion. In the narrow Appian way of Pompeii, they must have been very useful: it is said that the same kind are used in China. Bronze stocks, with chains to fasten over the aperture where the leg was put through; three skeletons were found thus fastened-horrible situation! to hear the thunders of Vesuvius, and find no means of escape from its suffocating ashes. We saw the chambers, in the barrack, where the stocks were found.

Letters for stamping bread. Mirrors of metal; chirurgical instruments; cupping-glasses, that is to say, coppercups in this we have made progress; the superiority of our own, in shewing the quantity of blood, and in lightness, is evident. It must have been quite an awful thing for the poor invalid, to have half a dozen of the Pompeian copper pint vessels clapped on his back.

I did not see lancets; but does not Pliny mention somewhere, that lancets were first used for bleeding, from some one having observed an animal prick himself with a thorn? Opera-tickets of bone. The number answering to the seat, that no one might sit out of his rank. How would this suit our London folks? All so gay, and so grand, and so superior! And the Vestal virgins, too! they had their place, the Podium, on the left of the orchestra,—a strange place for keepers of a sacred fire! then as now! We saw in Rome the caverns or deep pits called "Agger et sceleratus campus," where, if faulty, they were buried; beside them was put a lighted lamp, a little water, and milk. If these Vestals suffered the sacred fire to expire, they were whipped by the pontifex maximus! Their vehicle was the "Carpentum," the veil in which they sacrificed, suffibulum. They had one happy privilege!—If they met a criminal

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going to execution they had power to pardon (the cardinals have this). The sacred fire was kept in little earthen vessels, with two handles, called "Capedunculla."

The Vestals existed from the time of Numa to the destruction of heathenism in the Roman empire. As to the other ladies at the Pompeian theatre, when they were tired of looking at the scene below, they might contemplate the earth, the sky, and the ocean, as they were all placed on the top range.

Musical instruments in bone. The trebbia, the sistrum, cymbals, and zampogna, in bronze, similar in shape to those in Naples, consisting of a sheep-skin with the head off the wool stripped and filled with wind. Dice, with holes for lead. Toujours les coquins! Ces gens-là sont de tous les siècles. Household gods of every size and dimension. Toys. Amongst the toys was a curious one said to have been found in a child's tomb at Pompeii. It consisted of a variety of groups. First, a dead body floating on bronze waves, on it three persons standing—a woman in the centre. Another group-two men, one on the shoulder of another: the one carried is placing his hand over the mouth of his supporter to prevent the water entering; animals of all sorts, two by two; three doves: camels, tigers, &c. The idea seemed to hint at the means of escaping the overflowing waters, an idea as vain as that of the builders of Babel. Was the flood of Noah or Deucalion in the mind of the maker of the toy?

We saw locks, keys, and hinges, as clumsy as those of modern Italian blacksmiths; cups, saucers, spoons, but no forks.

A variety of articles for toilets; combs, and rouge! in pots. Little did the ladies think their vanity would be

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known to posterity. Doubtless they hoped their beauty would; and these ornaments were almost all found in tombs! Ornaments for the toilet in those of women; arms, armour, papyri, and styles, in those of men; toys in those of children-curious devices to delude the dying, and soften the pang of the survivor.

CHAPTER VI.

Giardino Reale-Torquato Tasso-St. Martino-The Palace of Capo di Monte-The Library Borbonico-Pompeian Remains.

In the royal garden before our windows is a beautiful little temple, in the centre of which is a bust of Tasso. The house of Tasso was on the shore of the Gulf of Sorrento, which is opposite to us: his natal chamber is a ruin on the rock. It was here that, seeking a place of rest, he returned with troubled intellects from the persecutions of Alphonso of Este to throw himself a beggar on the compassion of his sister. The convent of St. Onofrio, on the Janiculum at Rome, was his last asylum; and it possesses a bust moulded on his face.

"Ferrara! Tasso is thy glory and thy shame :
Hark to his strain! and then behold his cell!
And see how dearly earned Torquato's fame,
And where Alphonso bade his poet dwell!
Glory without end scattered the clouds away;
And on that name attend

The tears and praises of all time.

Peace to Torquato's injured shade! 'Twas his
In life and death to be the mark, where wrong
Aimed with her poisonous arrows but to miss!
Oh, victor, unsurpassed in modern song!

From our window our attention is directed to a distant mountain top: it is Monte Gargaro. On its highest pinnacle is the chapel of Saint Michele Archangelo. turning from a pilgrimage to its oratory, a number of Norman devotees were joined by other pilgrims from the

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