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Account of the ruins of Herculaneum. 303
so that one of the parish kept it for a memorial: for, in
the year 1666, I saw the child grown to be then a proper
maiden.
To preserve the memory of so notable an event, and that
no doubt, might remain of the fact, on a table which was
hung up in the said Church of Barking Allhallows; inTower
Ward, it was thus written :—“ This church was much de-
faced and ruined by a lamentable blow of 27 barrels of
gunpowder that took lire, the 4th day of January 1649, in
a ship-chandler’s house, over against the south side of the
church.—It was afterwards repaired and beautified by the
parishioners.”-—And escaping the Great Fire of London, it
has, between that and the present period, undergone seve-
ral other repairs, being new pewed, &c4
A curious Account of the Ruins of Herculaneum^
a subterraneous Town in the Neighbourhood of Naples ;
discovered in 1741. In a Letter from Mr. George
Shelvocke, written from-uctual Survey, to the Earl of
Leicester.
T. he writer begins by observing, that this ancient town
probably stood on the spot where now stands that called
Torre di Greco, as what is now seen of it, is not above
half a mile from the Tower, and was probably a very large
place. He then proceeds—“ Before I give such a descrip-
tion of these remains as I am able, it may first be necessary
to acquaint you, that for fear of accidents, the passages
they have dug out, which have been quite at a venture.,
are seldom higher or broader than is necessary for a man of
my size to pass along conveniently. This is the cause that
you have but an imperfect view of things in general; and
as these narrow passages are quite a labyrinth, there is no
R t 2 guessing
so that one of the parish kept it for a memorial: for, in
the year 1666, I saw the child grown to be then a proper
maiden.
To preserve the memory of so notable an event, and that
no doubt, might remain of the fact, on a table which was
hung up in the said Church of Barking Allhallows; inTower
Ward, it was thus written :—“ This church was much de-
faced and ruined by a lamentable blow of 27 barrels of
gunpowder that took lire, the 4th day of January 1649, in
a ship-chandler’s house, over against the south side of the
church.—It was afterwards repaired and beautified by the
parishioners.”-—And escaping the Great Fire of London, it
has, between that and the present period, undergone seve-
ral other repairs, being new pewed, &c4
A curious Account of the Ruins of Herculaneum^
a subterraneous Town in the Neighbourhood of Naples ;
discovered in 1741. In a Letter from Mr. George
Shelvocke, written from-uctual Survey, to the Earl of
Leicester.
T. he writer begins by observing, that this ancient town
probably stood on the spot where now stands that called
Torre di Greco, as what is now seen of it, is not above
half a mile from the Tower, and was probably a very large
place. He then proceeds—“ Before I give such a descrip-
tion of these remains as I am able, it may first be necessary
to acquaint you, that for fear of accidents, the passages
they have dug out, which have been quite at a venture.,
are seldom higher or broader than is necessary for a man of
my size to pass along conveniently. This is the cause that
you have but an imperfect view of things in general; and
as these narrow passages are quite a labyrinth, there is no
R t 2 guessing