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 234
ofPozzuoli, we go down by a gradualdefcent, through a path hollowed inthe rock, wliich is a diminutive ofthe famous grotto of Paufilipo, tothefe baths. At the end of this fub-terranean place, where no kind ofcarriage but horfes only can pafs, wefind the flair A, at which feveralroads leading to… … lielhcard Tec . C H9 ] by a gradual defcent, to the baths ofhot water which are faid to havebeen made in this fubterranean ca-vity for the ufe of Nero. The v/a-ter is fo hot, that the men who goto fetch it, not only find it infup-portable to the touch, but when theyreturn, they are quite covered…
