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XIV PREFACE.
standing the character commonly given to
the Neapolitans by strangers, they are a
most harmless and inoffensive race.
Manuscripts have been found only in
Herculaneum. Yet it may be proper here
to make some slight record upon the sub-
ject. In a letter of 1755, from Signor
Paderni, keeper of the Royal Museum,
inserted in the Philosophical Transactions,
we have a short account of the discovery
of a room, paved with mosaic, and con-
taining presses, in which were 855 volumes,
of which 18 were Latin. But the whole
number found is from 1500 to 1800, prin-
cipally Greek. Many fell to pieces, and
some were destroyed before their value
was discovered: for they generally bear
the appearance of burnt pieces of wood,
about two inches diameter, and from six
to eight inches long. The writing is in
one row of columns, side by side, begin-
ning in the centre of the roll, and con-
taining from twenty to thirty short lines
standing the character commonly given to
the Neapolitans by strangers, they are a
most harmless and inoffensive race.
Manuscripts have been found only in
Herculaneum. Yet it may be proper here
to make some slight record upon the sub-
ject. In a letter of 1755, from Signor
Paderni, keeper of the Royal Museum,
inserted in the Philosophical Transactions,
we have a short account of the discovery
of a room, paved with mosaic, and con-
taining presses, in which were 855 volumes,
of which 18 were Latin. But the whole
number found is from 1500 to 1800, prin-
cipally Greek. Many fell to pieces, and
some were destroyed before their value
was discovered: for they generally bear
the appearance of burnt pieces of wood,
about two inches diameter, and from six
to eight inches long. The writing is in
one row of columns, side by side, begin-
ning in the centre of the roll, and con-
taining from twenty to thirty short lines