Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pillars of the peristyle are still standing. The Curia, the Basilica, the Temples of Mercury and Concordia, the Pantheon come next. The many statues which adorned this square have been taken to the museum at Naples, as well as the greater part of the art treasures, paintings and mosaics. If they had been left in their old places they would probably have been soon destroyed. But it is to be regretted that not one Roman house has been restored here, where all necessary material was at hand. The ancients bestowed much more trouble and expense on their public buildings and less on their own houses than we, but everything was neat even to the veriest detail. The rooms which surrounded a square court-yard are seldom larger than eight to ten feet square ; they are unconnected with one another. The Pompeians must have had frequent intercourse with the Egyptians. This is proved by their sculptures, papyri, their temple of Isis and the mummies that have been found. If one of these could rise and take a look at us, he would be as much surprised at our appearance in coatsand round hats, and at our arrival by train, as we arc at his town. At a chemist's medicine bottles of glass containing medicines, and marble jugs, with balsams for the embalming of mummies, were found. I have been lucky enough to obtain a little piece of this hard mass which, in spite of the two thousand years that have elapsed, still retains a strong smell. [S TO HIS te Field-Marshal, September 16th, ;; always been her iflowments of her Ms of heart, and :she was married leld in England, 'fond of St. Croix Bved in Germany I ne von Staffeldt, ter wards became Devotion Augustevon Moltke lavished on the education of her step-children, and with what affection they returned her care has heen told iu the biography o...