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PREFACE.
plan of the city, which were scarcely united
by the unfinished excavation of the Forum
at the period of the former publication.
The house of the Tragic Poet has exhibited
superior specimens of painting, while the
subject of ancient art itself is exciting more
of the public attention, and meeting with
merited though tardy admiration, through
the zeal and industry of M. Ternite, who is
engraving at Berlin a superb collection of
the pictures of Herculaneum and Pompeii
under the auspices of the King of Prussia.
With such an accession of new materials,
the Author of the present work has thought
it advisable to lay them before the public
without delay, aware that time will in-
calculably diminish the freshness of those
objects, which, when stripped of their ex-
ternal coats by the rains of winter or the
burning suns of summer, lose by far the
greater portion of their interest and identity.
plan of the city, which were scarcely united
by the unfinished excavation of the Forum
at the period of the former publication.
The house of the Tragic Poet has exhibited
superior specimens of painting, while the
subject of ancient art itself is exciting more
of the public attention, and meeting with
merited though tardy admiration, through
the zeal and industry of M. Ternite, who is
engraving at Berlin a superb collection of
the pictures of Herculaneum and Pompeii
under the auspices of the King of Prussia.
With such an accession of new materials,
the Author of the present work has thought
it advisable to lay them before the public
without delay, aware that time will in-
calculably diminish the freshness of those
objects, which, when stripped of their ex-
ternal coats by the rains of winter or the
burning suns of summer, lose by far the
greater portion of their interest and identity.