Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

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and seems to account for the apparent want of
architectural magnificence in a city, equal per-
haps in size and population to Herculaneum, and
complimented by Seneca with the addition of
“ celebrem Campanice urbem.”
The street which runs from the neighbor-
hood of the soldiers’ quarters to the gate is nar-
row, that is, only about thirteen feet wide, formed
like the Via Appia at Itri, and other places
where it remains entire, of large stones fitted to
each other in their original form, without being
cut or broken for the purpose. There are on
each side parapets raised about two feet above
the middle, and about three feet wide. The
pavement is furrowed by two deep ruts, which
shew evidently that the carriages always kept
the same line, and that the wheels were about
four feet asunder : of course they must have all
moved in the same direction, and had regular
hours for coming and going, as there is not room
for two, and even if there were, the stone posts
which are placed at intervals would oblige them
to return to the track. The houses on either
side stand close to each other, seem to have been
shops of different kinds, were of the same ele-
vation, and nearly the same size, all paved and
painted much in the same manner. In one of
these buildings were found several unfinished