Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 207
, more fafe for the veiG^elsthat rode in it, and to rejfifl theforce of the fea, which fpends thatfury on its pillars, that otherwifewould do mifchief by beating uponthe beach of the town. It was cer-tainly a great and ufeful enterprize;K 2 the [ 132 ]the arches and pillars were compofedof ftone…
