Theseus with the Minotaur dead, and lying on his back at his feet, while several Athenian youths are embracing the knees, and kissing the hand, of their deliverer. We may observe, that the fabulous being above-mentioned appears in this piece with the intire body of a man, and only the head of a bull, which agrees with the manner, in which he is represented in an antique sardonyx of Greek sculpture in the cabinet at Vienna, and in most of the works of the ancient artists. Tho’ I have by me the copy of an antique gem, wherein the Minotaur is exhibited as standing in the center of the famous labyrinth, and having below the body of a bull as far as to the waist, and from thence upwards an human form: which representation is further countenanced by Ovid, who describes that monster, as _Semibovemque virum, semivirumque bovem._ Art. Am. L. ii. _v._ 12. II. Chiron and Achilles. The latter of these is standing, and has a _plectrum_ in his right hand: the former seems to embrace his noble pupil with his left arm, and with his right hand to strike the lyre, as teaching him to play upon that instrument. But the most remarkable circumstance in the figure of Chiron is his reposing his hinder parts on his left haunch upon the ground. Yet this attitude, as well as the other particulars mentioned above, is expressed in an antique gem, of which I have seen a copy at Rome. * * * * * I shall conclude this paper with an account of the statues, which stand in several rooms adjoining to the unfinished part of the palace, and were found (as to the far greater number) at or near Herculaneum. _In the First Room._ An equestrian marble statue of M. Nonius Balbus the elder, which is intended to be placed in a large entrance on the east side of the palace, to answer to that of his son, which is already set up on the other side, facing the bay of Naples. _In the Second._ Nero and Germanicus, considerably larger than the life, but squeezed somewhat flat by the weight of the lava, or other ruins, with which they were once overwhelmed. A man in a sacrificing habit. Two others in the toga, and two women in the palla. All these are of bronze. Statues of marble deposited here are the following, _viz._ At the entrance, a matron larger than nature, with strong expression in her face. Two colossal trunks in a sitting posture. Three statues of one of the Agrippina’s. A Roman matron, or empress, with remains of red painting on the extremities of her palla. Three other matrons. _In the Third Room._ Bacchus. A muse. A fragment of a statue in the pallium. A fine statua togata with the head veiled, larger than the life.