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POMPEIATSTA.
a peasant who sinking a well in his garden
found some fragments of marble, by acci-
dent brought to light Herculaneum, which,
buried under accumulated beds of lava, to
the depth of above sixty feet, might possi-
bly have remained for ever undiscovered,
whereas the ruins of Pompeii might have
been observed by any traveller along the
road.
No one, however, could have suspected
how rich a mine of antiquities existed here,
until a labourer, in the middle of the last
century, found, in ploughing, a statue of
brass; which circumstance being reported
to the government, was one of the causes
which led to the first excavations; and
subsequently the accidental discovery of
the temple of Isis, while some workmen
were employed in the construction of a
subterraneous aqueduct for the use of the
manufactory of arms at Torre dell' Annun-
ziata, contributed not a little to confirm
the expectations which had been excited.
a peasant who sinking a well in his garden
found some fragments of marble, by acci-
dent brought to light Herculaneum, which,
buried under accumulated beds of lava, to
the depth of above sixty feet, might possi-
bly have remained for ever undiscovered,
whereas the ruins of Pompeii might have
been observed by any traveller along the
road.
No one, however, could have suspected
how rich a mine of antiquities existed here,
until a labourer, in the middle of the last
century, found, in ploughing, a statue of
brass; which circumstance being reported
to the government, was one of the causes
which led to the first excavations; and
subsequently the accidental discovery of
the temple of Isis, while some workmen
were employed in the construction of a
subterraneous aqueduct for the use of the
manufactory of arms at Torre dell' Annun-
ziata, contributed not a little to confirm
the expectations which had been excited.