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learned editor of a volume of Journals oj
Travellers in the Levant cites a parallel
passage from Bishop Lowth, who had ex-
plained, that Sion and Jerusalem might
be meant in the plural form used by the
prophet Isaiah, lxiv.—10. The instances
are, perhaps, but few: Pompeii is cer-
tainly an exception ; and we may recollect
that islands are sometimes so designated.
This remark is, however, ingenious.
It would be difficult to decide upon
the relative magnitude of Pompeii with
Herculaneum: yet, from the lead its name
taker in ancient authors, the former must,
in all probability, have been the most
populous. Its situation was favoured by
the residence of Cicero, and by the son of
the emperor Claudius, who there died by
swallowing a pear.
The building in the foreground with
a tower is a farm-house.
learned editor of a volume of Journals oj
Travellers in the Levant cites a parallel
passage from Bishop Lowth, who had ex-
plained, that Sion and Jerusalem might
be meant in the plural form used by the
prophet Isaiah, lxiv.—10. The instances
are, perhaps, but few: Pompeii is cer-
tainly an exception ; and we may recollect
that islands are sometimes so designated.
This remark is, however, ingenious.
It would be difficult to decide upon
the relative magnitude of Pompeii with
Herculaneum: yet, from the lead its name
taker in ancient authors, the former must,
in all probability, have been the most
populous. Its situation was favoured by
the residence of Cicero, and by the son of
the emperor Claudius, who there died by
swallowing a pear.
The building in the foreground with
a tower is a farm-house.