THE present edition has been carefully revised and has been enlarged by adding descriptions of some of the more important discoveries made in the progress of the excavations up to the year 1874. These, for the most part, have been inserted in an Appendix. An interesting view of the Amphitheatre, during the fight with the Nucerians, from a recently discovered fresco, has been added at p. 247, and a short description subjoined. Two other fresh engravings have been inserted : one, of the Rape of the Palladium (Appendix, p.578); the other of the. cast of a corpse, discovered in November, 1873. The form from which it was made was in so remarkable a state of preservation, that it has been thought. advisable to substitute a cut of it (p. 476) for that of the two bodies in the previous edition. The Plan of Pompeii has been brought up to the present date, and a new one has been added (p. 573) showing the town divided into Regions and Insulæ.

T. H. D.

Brighton,

December, 1874.

PREFACE.

The work now offered to the reader is based on one originally published between thirty and forty years ago under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, which became deservedly popular, and has been several times reprinted ; but it was never re-edited, although, in the long period of time that has elapsed since its first publication, considerable progress has of course been made in the excavations at Pompeii. The present work has therefore been undertaken with the view of supplying some account of these more recent excavations, and thus rendering the book a more full and accurate description of Pompeii in its present state.

For this purpose much new matter has been added, previous descriptions have been altered and enlarged, and new names that have been given to streets, buildings, &c., have been inserted. The method of the book seemed also capable of improvement by transposing some of the descriptions ; and indeed the author of the original work has now and then indicated where this might be done with advantage.

The necessary additions would have rendered the volume of inconvenient size had all the original matter been retained. With a view to avoid ibis inconvenience, some descriptions which did not appear to be much connected with the subject, such as those of the remains of Greek walls, of the baths at Rome, of the origin of the Greek theatre, &c., have been omitted. The Editor may mention that, with a view to bring down the information to the latest moment, he fre­quently visited Pompeii during a residence at Naples in the winter of 1865-6, and studied the best and latest authorities on the subject. An Itinerary at the end of the volume may serve to render it a guide for travellers, as well as an index to the principal objects. It may be added that several new illustrations have been given, besides a new map of the excavations, reduced from the Commendatore Fiorelli's plan, with that gentleman's kind permission.

London, March, 1887.