A Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts

of Portici. These fruits, he says, are not stored in Campania before October. It is very true; I have seen these fruits, and also some fir cones, in that museum. But, considering the nature of the climate, the unripe state in which those fruits and cones may have been gathered, and the possible variations of the season, I cannot conclude with Mazzochi that they justify his emendation.

A fragment of L. Sisenna, in Nonius Marcellus, informs us that “The town of Herculaneum was situated on a high hill by the sea, with small walls, between two rivers, below Vesuvius” original: "Oppidum Herculaneum tumulo in excelso loco propter mare parvis mœnibus inter duos fluvios infra Vesuvius positum.". It is very remarkable that no sign of these two rivers remains now, except for some water bubbling and making its way through the Tophus A porous volcanic rock. or Pappamonte A local Italian term for a soft volcanic stone. in its supposed ancient channel. A passage in the Book of Statutes belonging to the Chapter of the Cathedral at Naples was shown to me; it had these words:—