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in Lombard-freet, a few years ago, was difcovered the remains of
a Roman street, with numbers of coins, and several antique curio-
fities, fome of great elegance. The beds through which the work-
men funk were four. The firft confifted of factitious earth, about
thirteen feet fix inches thick, all accumulated fince the desertion
of the antient street: the second of brick, two feet thick, the ruins
of the buildings: the third of afhes only, three inches: the fourth
of Roman pavement, both common and teffulated, over which the
coins and other antiquities were discovered. Beneath that was
the original earth. This account was communicated to the
Society of Antiquaries by Doctor Combe, Sir John Henneker, and
Mr. John Jackson of Clement's-lane. The predominant articles
were earthen-ware: and feveral were ornamented in the most

elegant manner. A vafe of red earth has on its furface a repre-
sentation of a fight of men; fome on horfeback, others on foot:
or perhaps a fhew of gladiators, as they all fought in pairs, and
many
of them naked: the combatants were armed with falchions:
and small round shields, in the manner of the Thracians, the most
esteemed of the gladiators. Others had spears, and others a kind
of mace. A beautiful running foliage encompassed the bottom
of this veffel. On the fragment of another were feveral figures.
Among them appears Pan, with his Pedum or crook; and near
to him one of the lafcivi fatyri, both in beautiful skipping atti-
tudes. On the fame piece are two tripods; round each is a
serpent regularly twifted, and bringing its head over a bowl
which fills the top. Thefe feem (by the ferpent) to have been
dedicated to Apollo *, who, as well as his fon Æfculapius, pre-

• See fimilar in Monfaucon, tom. i. part ii. tab. lii.

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fided over medicine. On the top of one of the tripods ftands a man in full armour. Might not this veffel have been votive, made by order of a foldier reftored to health by favor of the god; and to his active powers and enjoyment of rural pleafures, typified under the form of Pan and his nimble attendants? A plant extends along part of another compartment, poffibly allusive to their medical virtues: and, to fhew that Bacchus was not forgotten, beneath lies a Thyrfus with a double head. All that appears of the two bowls I defcribe, have elegancies, which make it evident that Rome did not want its WEDGWOOD.

On another bowl was a free pattern of foliage. On others, or fragments, were objects of the chace, such as hares, part of a deer, and a boar, with human figures, dogs, and horses: all these pieces prettily ornamented. There were, befides, fome beads, made of earthen-ware, of the fame form as thofe called the ovum anguinum, and by the Welsh, glain naidr; and numbers of coins in gold, filver, and brafs, of Claudius, Nero, Galba, and other emperors, down to Conftantine. The more curious parts of this interefting discovery are engraven in the Archæologia, vol. viii. and

merit the attention of the curious.

P. 422. After "ill-fated race," add-In Swithin's-lane, which runs between Lombard-street and Cannon-ftreet, ftood Tortington, the house of the prior of Tortington in Suffolk. It was the house of the Veres earls of Oxford, in 1598, and called Oxford-place.

Adjacent to the garden ftood what Stow calls two other faire houfes. In one dwelt Sir Richard Empfon, in the other Edmund Dudley; the cruel inftruments of oppreffion under the royal miser Henry VII. Each of them had a door into the garden, where they

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they met and had private conferences *; probably to concert the best means of filling their master's pockets by, the rigorous enforcement of penal statutes, or the revival of obsolete laws: or by affifting in any mean bargain which Henry chofe to make.

: P. 422. Fenchurch-street.-In the fame street was Northumberland-place, the fite of the houfe of Henry earl of Northumberland, towards the end of the reign of Henry VI.

Ironmongers-ball is a great ornament to this street; as it is an honor to its architect. It was built in 1748, and is the place of bufinefs and feftivity of that great and opulent company. Maitland tells us, they have the happy ability of difpofing of, annually, eighteen hundred pounds for charitable uses.

P. 423. For "Great Marlow," 1. ult. read-Boulter's-lock, above Maidenhead.

P. 427. Addition to the fish of the Thames.-Several of the leffer fpecies of whales have been known to ftray up the Thames ; a kind of Grampus, with a high dorfal fin, has been taken within the mouth of the river. It proved the Spekhugger of Strom. Hift. Sondmoer, i. 309; the Delphinus orca of Fabricius. Faun. Groenl. p. 46. Its length was twenty-four feet. Mr. J. Hunter has given a good figure in Phil. Trans. vol. lxxvii. tab. xvi.

Another, which is engraven by the fame gentleman, in plate xvii. was of the length of eighteen feet, thick in proportion to its length, and very deep bellied. I think it a new fpecies.

* Stow's Survaie, 427.

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A fpecies allied to the Delphinus, Delphis, or Dolphin, twentyone feet long, was taken in 1783 above London Bridge. The nofe is protracted and flender, like that of the Dolphin, but much shorter. It differs from the Bottle-nofed Whale of Mr. Dale, in feveral particulars. The nose does not turn up at the end; the body is flender, the dorsal fin placed near the tail; and, as Mr. Hunter obfèrves, has a very specific mark, two very small pointed teeth in the fore part of the upper jaw. This is engraven in plate xx. of the fame volume of the Tranfactions; and has furnished a fecond new fpecies difcovered by our great anatomist.

The common porpeffes frequently run up the Thames in numbers, and afford an eager diversion to the watermen.