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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)

Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 293

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ealth. According to another calculation, all the gold now in theworld is supposed to be equal to about $3,410,000,000; butthe whole amount of either of the two precious metals in old timesis not easily ascertained, nor can any definite comparison be es-tablished between their former and present… … p<)fif;^TiP ^raj^31f^3. The immense number and variety of statues, lamps, urns,articles of domestic use, in metal or earthenware, etc., dis-covered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, have rendered theMuseum at Naples an inexhaustible treasury of informationrelative to the private life of the ancients.…

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